prepare_news: Prepare news data

In kasperwelbers/restecode: Text analysis tools from the Responsible Terrorism Coverage project

Description

Prepare news data

Usage

prepare_news(d, doc_col, date_col, text_cols, docvars = NULL,
  first_n_words = NA, with_geo = T, rm_time = T)

Arguments

d	A data.frame in which each row is a news article.
doc_col	The name of the column with unique article ids
date_col	The name of the column with the date, in a format that can be coerced to a Date object with as.Date()
text_cols	The name(s) of the column(s) with article text. e.g. c('headline','byline','body')
docvars	The columns to include as docvars (article meta such as headline, url)
first_n_words	Optionally, only include the first n words of the article text in the DTM
with_geo	IF TRUE, add geo tags to docvars (see vignette for usage)
rm_time	If TRUE, remove time related terms, such as monday, januari and yesterday.

Value

A quanteda style DTM

kasperwelbers/restecode documentation built on Feb. 12, 2020, 11:39 a.m.