all_words: Searches Text Column for Words

In trinker/qdap2: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis

Description

A convenience function to find words that begin with or contain a letter chunk and returns the frequency counts of the number of occurrences of each word.

Usage

  all_words(text.var, begins.with = NULL, contains = NULL,
    alphabetical = TRUE)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
begins.with	This argument takes a word chunk. Default is NULL. Use this if searching for a word beginning with the word chunk.
contains	This argument takes a word chunk. Default is NULL. Use this if searching for a word containing the word chunk.
alphabetical	logical. If True orders rows alphabetically, if false orders the rows by frequency.

Value

Returns a dataframe with frequency counts of words that begin with or contain the provided word chunk.

Note

Cannot provide both begins.with and contains arguments at once. If both begins.with and contains are NULL all.words returns a frequency count for all words.

See Also

term.match

Examples

x1 <- all_words(raj$dialogue, begins.with="re")
head(x1, 10)
x2 <- all_words(raj$dialogue, "q")
head(x2, 10)
all_words(raj$dialogue, contains="conc")
x3 <- all_words(raj$dialogue)
head(x3, 10)

trinker/qdap2 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 9:47 p.m.