term_day_dist: Calculate statistics for term occurence across days

In kasperwelbers/RNewsflow: Tools for Comparing Text Messages Across Time and Media

Calculate statistics for term occurence across days

Description

Calculate statistics for term occurence across days

Usage

term_day_dist(dtm, meta = NULL, date.var = "date")

Arguments

dtm	A quanteda dfm. Alternatively, a DocumentTermMatrix from the tm package can be used, but then the meta parameter needs to be specified manually
meta	If dtm is a quanteda dfm, docvars(meta) is used by default (meta is NULL) to obtain the meta data. Otherwise, the meta data.frame has to be given by the user, with the rows of the meta data.frame matching the rows of the dtm (i.e. each row is a document)
date.var	The name of the meta column specifying the document date. default is "date". The values should be of type POSIXlt or POSIXct

Value

A data.frame with statistics for each term.

Examples

tdd = term_day_dist(rnewsflow_dfm, date.var='date')
head(tdd)
tail(tdd)

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