dfm_match: Match the feature set of a dfm to given feature names

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Match the feature set of a dfm to given feature names

Description

Match the feature set of a dfm to a specified vector of feature names. For existing features in x for which there is an exact match for an element of features, these will be included. Any features in x not features will be discarded, and any feature names specified in features but not found in x will be added with all zero counts.

Usage

dfm_match(x, features)

Arguments

x	a dfm
features	character; the feature names to be matched in the output dfm

Details

Selecting on another dfm's featnames() is useful when you have trained a model on one dfm, and need to project this onto a test set whose features must be identical. It is also used in bootstrap_dfm().

Value

A dfm whose features are identical to those specified in features.

Note

Unlike dfm_select(), this function will add feature names not already present in x. It also provides only fixed, case-sensitive matches. For more flexible feature selection, see dfm_select().

See Also

dfm_select()

Examples

# matching a dfm to a feature vector
dfm_match(dfm(tokens("")), letters[1:5])
dfm_match(data_dfm_lbgexample, c("A", "B", "Z"))
dfm_match(data_dfm_lbgexample, c("B", "newfeat1", "A", "newfeat2"))

# matching one dfm to another
txt <- c("This is text one", "The second text", "This is text three")
(dfmat1 <- dfm(tokens(txt[1:2])))
(dfmat2 <- dfm(tokens(txt[2:3])))
(dfmat3 <- dfm_match(dfmat1, featnames(dfmat2)))
setequal(featnames(dfmat2), featnames(dfmat3))

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