as.character.corpus: Coercion and checking methods for corpus objects

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Coercion and checking methods for corpus objects

Description

Coercion functions to and from corpus objects, including conversion to a plain character object; and checks for whether an object is a corpus.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'corpus'
as.character(x, use.names = TRUE, ...)

is.corpus(x)

as.corpus(x)

Arguments

x	object to be coerced or checked
use.names	logical; preserve (document) names if TRUE
...	additional arguments used by specific methods

Value

as.character() returns the corpus as a plain character vector, with or without named elements.

is.corpus returns TRUE if the object is a corpus.

as.corpus() upgrades a corpus object to the newest format. object.

Note

as.character(x) where x is a corpus is equivalent to calling the deprecated texts(x).

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