omegahat/Rlibstemmer: Interface to Snowball implementation of Porter's word stemming algorithm using libstemmer.

An R interface to the C code that implements Porter's word stemming algorithm for collapsing words to a common root to aid comparison of texts. There is code to for 16 different languages (i.e. danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, hungarian, italian, norwegian, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, swedish, turkish). Other languages can be supported (e.g. armenian, basque, catalan). The wordStem() function supports different encodings.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("omegahat/Rlibstemmer")