jca_cat: Drive the category counter

In conjugateprior/rjca: R Interface to JCA Tools

Description

Drive the category counter. See details for possible extra arguments.

Usage

jca_cat(dictionary, files, ...)

Arguments

dictionary	a content analysis dictionary
files	a list of file and folder names
...	extra arguments to control the process. See Details.

Details

Optional arguments are

• locale: Locale in ISO format, e.g. "en_US". Defaults to whatever get_locale returns

• encoding: the file encoding of the files. Defaults to the whatever get_encoding returns

• output: the folder that the results will land in before being served back as a data.frame. Defaults to a temporary folder

• old.matching: whether to use the old style pattern matching (behaves like JFreq but also risks double counting when multiple patterns match a string). Defaults to FALSE

• progress: Whether to show the progress of the java code as it goes through the files

This function also dumps the location of the temporary folder where the results landed to standard error in case you want the original csv data file and yoshikoder dictionary translation.

The output is a data.frame with documents as row names, dictionary categories as column names and counts of how many words in each document matched patterns in that category. Dictionaries are hierarchically structured so category names are sorted depth first and

Value

a data.frame containing the content analysis results

conjugateprior/rjca documentation built on May 13, 2019, 10:50 p.m.