ProcessText: Process text

In mobilizingcs/MobilizePrime: Simple functions for Mobilize

Description

Process text that has been initialized to work as text in R.

Usage

ProcessText(text, stopwords.list = stopwords("en"), lower = TRUE, removepunctuation = TRUE, removenumbers = TRUE, removewhitespace = FALSE, removestopwords = FALSE, stemwords = FALSE)

Arguments

text	a text object that has been initialized using the InitializeText function.
stopwords.list	Specify a stopwords.list you would like to use. You can either specify a custom list or a preloaded list, like "en" or "SMART" by using the 'stopwords()' function.
lower	logical. Do you want to convert all the words to lower case? If so, leave the default as TRUE
removepunctuation	logical. Do you want to remove punctuation? If so, leave the default as TRUE
removenumbers	logical. Do you want to remove numbers? If so, leave the default as TRUE
removewhitespace	logical. Do you want to remove whitespace, like spaces and tabs? If so, change the default by passing TRUE
removestopwords	logical. Do you want to remove stopwords, like "and" and "the"? If so, change the default by passing TRUE
stemwords	logical. Do you want to "stem" words, changing both "walking" and "walked" to "walk"? If so, change the default by passing TRUE

Value

Returns a processed text file with the requested transformations performed.

Author(s)

Amelia McNamara

See Also

tm_map, InitializeText

Examples

data(crude)
ProcessText(crude)
PricessText(crude, stopwords.list = "SMART", removestopwords = TRUE)

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