newTree: Creates a new ternary search tree
In TSTr: Ternary Search Tree for Auto-Completion and Spell Checking

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Creates a new ternary search tree containing the input words

1	newTree(input)

input

a filepath to read from or a character vector containing the strings.

Creates a new tree and adds the words contained in a vector or a file to the tree. Reports each 10000 words it has added to the tree and takes around 30 sec. per 10k words on a 8Gb RAM computer. In addition, reports the total number of words and nodes when finished.

An object of class 'list' and 'tstTree'.

addToTree

fruitTree <- newTree(c("apple", "orange"))
fileConn <- file("XMIwords.txt")
writeLines(head(XMIwords,100), fileConn)
close(fileConn)
enTree <- newTree("XMIwords.txt")