iso.date: Create a subcorpus based on user specified date ranges

In JSmith146/CoRpEx: CorpEx is Designed for the Exploration and Mining of Large Textual Corpuses of Documents

Description

Create a reduced subcorpus containing documents produces within a defined date range.

Usage

iso.date(data.td, Beg.date, End.date)

Arguments

data.td	A tidy dataset
Beg.date	User specified beginning date
End.date	User specified end date

Details

This function establishes Beg.date as the beginning date and End.date as the ending date. It then identifies all rows of data whose associated dates fall on or between these dates. These identified rows of data within the corpus are then used to create a new subcorpus.

Date Formats

Dates must be input in one of the following formats:

"6aug2005"

"6august2005"

"08-06-2005"

"06-08-2005"

"2006-08-06"

Value

Creates a subcorpus containing only documents produced between Beg.date and End.date

Examples

Subcorpus <- iso.date(Articles, "12may2017","19may2017")
Subcorpus <- iso.date(Articles, "12-05-2017","19-05-2017")

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