dfm_sort: Sort a dfm by frequency of one or more margins

In quanteda: Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

Sort a dfm by frequency of one or more margins

Description

Sorts a dfm by descending frequency of total features, total features in documents, or both.

Usage

dfm_sort(x, decreasing = TRUE, margin = c("features", "documents", "both"))

Arguments

x	Document-feature matrix created by dfm()
decreasing	logical; if TRUE, the sort will be in descending order, otherwise sort in increasing order
margin	which margin to sort on features to sort by frequency of features, documents to sort by total feature counts in documents, and both to sort by both

Value

A sorted dfm matrix object

Author(s)

Ken Benoit

Examples

dfmat <- dfm(tokens(data_corpus_inaugural))
head(dfmat)
head(dfm_sort(dfmat))
head(dfm_sort(dfmat, decreasing = FALSE, "both"))

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