deleteAndRenameDuplicates: Deletes and Renames Articles with the same ID

In tosca: Tools for Statistical Content Analysis

Description

Deletes articles with the same ID and same text. Renames the ID of articles with the same ID but different text-component (_IDFakeDup, _IDRealDup).

Usage

deleteAndRenameDuplicates(object, renameRemaining = TRUE)

Arguments

object	A textmeta object as a result of a read-function.
renameRemaining	Logical: Should all articles for which a counterpart with the same id exists, but which do not have the same text and - in addition - which matches (an)other article(s) in the text field be named a "fake duplicate" or not.

Details

Summary: Different types of duplicates: "complete duplicates" = same ID, same information in text, same information in meta "real duplicates" = same ID, same information in text, different information in meta "fake duplicates" = same ID, different information in text

Value

A filtered textmeta object with updated IDs.

Examples

texts <- list(A="Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day.
Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime",
A="A fake duplicate",
B="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
B="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
C="A very able manipulative mathematician, Fisher enjoys a real mastery
in evaluating complicated multiple integrals.",
C="A very able manipulative mathematician, Fisher enjoys a real mastery
in evaluating complicated multiple integrals.")

corpus <- textmeta(meta=data.frame(id=c("A", "A", "B", "B", "C", "C"),
title=c("Fishing", "Fake duplicate", "Don't panic!", "towel day", "Sir Ronald", "Sir Ronald"),
date=c("1885-01-02", "1885-01-03", "1979-03-04", "1979-03-05", "1951-05-06", "1951-05-06"),
stringsAsFactors=FALSE), text=texts)

duplicates <- deleteAndRenameDuplicates(object=corpus)
duplicates$meta$id

texts <- list(A="Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day.
Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime",
A="Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day.
Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime",
A="A fake duplicate",
B="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
B="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
C="A very able manipulative mathematician, Fisher enjoys a real mastery
in evaluating complicated multiple integrals.",
C="A very able manipulative mathematician, Fisher enjoys a real mastery
in evaluating complicated multiple integrals.")

corpus <- textmeta(meta=data.frame(id=c("A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "C", "C"),
title=c("Fishing", "Fishing2", "Fake duplicate", "Don't panic!", "towel day",
"Sir Ronald", "Sir Ronald"),
date=c("1885-01-02", "1885-01-02", "1885-01-03", "1979-03-04", "1979-03-05",
"1951-05-06", "1951-05-06"),
stringsAsFactors=FALSE), text=texts)

duplicates <- deleteAndRenameDuplicates(object=corpus)
duplicates2 <- deleteAndRenameDuplicates(object=corpus, renameRemaining = FALSE)

tosca documentation built on Oct. 28, 2021, 5:07 p.m.