word_value: Converts a Vector of Words to Numeric Values Based on Letter...

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Description

Uses the numeric position of the letters in a word to create a numeric value for a word.

Usage

word_value(words, dtOut = FALSE)

Arguments

words	The input vector of words.
dtOut	Logical. Should the output be a data.table comprising the words and the values. Defaults to FALSE.

Details

The function converts the input to lowercase, removes anything that is not between the letters "a" and "z", and transliterates accented characters to their ASCII equivalent before converting the word to a numeric value.

Value

A named numeric vector or a data.table.

Author(s)

Ananda Mahto and Jota.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/q/36097446/1270695

Examples

myvec <- c("and", "dad", "cat", "fox", "mom", 
           "add", "dan", "naive", "non-descript")
word_value(myvec)
word_value(myvec, TRUE)

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