prepare_gtd: Prepare the GTD data

In maskedforreview/gtdnews: Online appendix for @@ paper

Description

Creates a document term matrix in the dfm class. Includes only the meta data used for the analysis presented in the vignette.

Usage

prepare_gtd(d, fromdate = NULL, todate = NULL, rm_time = T)

Arguments

d	A data.frame with the GTD data. You can download the GTD data for free by filling out this form. You can read the .xlsx file with read.xlsx.
fromdate	A Date (or character value that can be coerced to Date)
todate	A Date (or character value that can be coerced to Date)
rm_time	If TRUE, remove time related terms, such as monday, januari and yesterday.

Value

A quanteda style DTM

Examples

gtd_data = openxlsx::read.xlsx('GTD FILE AS DOWNLOADED FROM GTD WEBSITE')
gtd_dtm = prepare_gtd(gtd_data, fromdate='2010-01-01')

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