text_prep_multiword_phrases: Prepare multi-word phrases before unnesting

In DataS-DHSC/consultations: Re-usable functions for describing the responses to a public consultation or call for evidence

Description

This function removes spaces from multi-word phrases, so they will be treated as a single word. This can be helpful when there are domain-specific multi-word phrases that you want to analyse as one term. Apply this function to your free-text columns before unnesting words.

Usage

text_prep_multiword_phrases(text_col, multiword_list = c(""))

Arguments

text_col	string vector (or dataframe column)
multiword_list	vector of multi-word phrases you want to treat as

Details

Returns multi-word phrases as a single word in PascalCase.

Value

string vector with multi-word phrases replaced in PascalCase

Examples

text_prep_multiword_phrases(c("test this", "not a test"), multiword_list = c("test this"))

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