count_lexicon_vec: Count hits in a lexicon

In sebastiansauer/prada: Data and R functions for practical data analysis

Count hits in a lexicon

Description

Counts the number of times a string is detected in a lexicon, according to a (regex) pattern. This function is based on a inner join of the text and the dictionary.

Usage

count_lexicon_vec(vec, lexicon_vec)

Arguments

vec	String (vector) in which the occurences of words from lexicon should be counted
lexicon_vec	vector of target words which should be counted in text

Value

Number of hits of text in dictionary

Examples

my_txt <- c("Hello you! Too bad you are not here")
my_dict <- c("Bad", "good")
count_lexicon_vec(my_txt, my_dict)
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