replace_contraction: Replace Contractions

In qdap: Bridging the Gap Between Qualitative Data and Quantitative Analysis

Replace Contractions

Description

This function replaces contractions with long form.

Usage

replace_contraction(
  text.var,
  contraction = qdapDictionaries::contractions,
  replace = NULL,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  sent.cap = TRUE
)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
contraction	A two column key of contractions (column 1) and expanded form replacements (column 2) or a vector of contractions. Default is to use qdapDictionaries's contractions data set.
replace	A vector of expanded form replacements if a data frame is not supplied to the contraction argument.
ignore.case	logical. If TRUE replaces without regard to capitalization.
sent.cap	logical. If TRUE capitalizes the beginning of every sentence.

Value

Returns a vector with contractions replaced.

See Also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_number, replace_symbol

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- c("Mr. Jones isn't going.",  
    "Check it out what's going on.",
    "He's here but didn't go.",
    "the robot at t.s. wasn't nice", 
    "he'd like it if i'd go away")

replace_contraction(x)

## End(Not run)

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