clean.text: Clean text and get it ready for textreg.

In textreg: n-Gram Text Regression, aka Concise Comparative Summarization

Clean text and get it ready for textreg.

Description

Changes multiline documents to single line. Strips extra whitespace and punctuation. Changes digits to 'X's. Non-alpha characters converted to spaces.

Usage

clean.text(bigcorp)

Arguments

bigcorp

A tm Corpus object.

Examples

library( tm )
txt = c( "thhis s! and bonkus  4:33pm and Jan 3, 2015. ", 
         "   big    space\n     dawg-ness?")
a <- clean.text( VCorpus( VectorSource( txt ) ) )
a[[1]]

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