end_mark: Sentence End marks

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

Description

Grab the sentence end marks for a transcript. This can be useful to categorize based on sentence type.

Usage

  end_mark(text.var)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

Value

Returns a character vector of qdap end marks for each sentence. End marks include:

"."	Declarative sentence.
"?"	Question sentence.
"!"	Exclamatory sentence.
"|"	Incomplete sentence.
"*."	Imperative-declarative sentence.
"*?"	Imperative-question sentence (unlikely to occur)
"*!"	Imperative-exclamatory sentence.
"*|"	Imperative-incomplete sentence.
"no.em"	No end mark.
"blank"	Empty cell/NA.

Examples

end_mark(DATA$state)
end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue)
ques <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) == "?", ] #grab questions
htruncdf(ques)
non.ques <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) != "?", ] #non questions
htruncdf(non.ques, 20)
ques.per <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) %in% c(".", "?"), ] #grab ? and .
htruncdf(ques.per, 20)

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