as.meta: "meta" Component of "textmeta"-Objects

In tosca: Tools for Statistical Content Analysis

Description

Helper to create the requested data.frame to create a "textmeta" object.

Usage

as.meta(
  x,
  cols = colnames(x),
  idCol = "id",
  dateCol = "date",
  titleCol = "title",
  dateFormat
)

Arguments

x	data.frame to convert
cols	character vector with columns which should be kept
idCol	character string with column name of the IDs
dateCol	character string with column name of the Dates
titleCol	character string with column name of the Titles
dateFormat	character string with the date format in x for as.Date. If not supplied, dates are not transformed.

Value

A data.frame with columns "id", "date", "title" and user-specified others.

Examples

meta <- data.frame(id = 1:3, additionalVariable = matrix(5, ncol = 4, nrow = 3))
(as.meta(meta))

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