space_fill: Replace Spaces

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

Description

Replace spaces in words groups that should be grouped together.

Usage

  space_fill(text.var, terms, sep = "~~", rm.extra = TRUE,
    ignore.case = TRUE, fixed = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
terms	A character vector of grouped word terms to insert a new separating/space character.
sep	A character string to separate the terms.
rm.extra	logical. Should trailing, leading and > 1 continuous white spaces be removed?
ignore.case	logical. If FALSE, the pattern matching is case sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored during matching.
fixed	logical. If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Overrides all conflicting arguments.
...	Other arguments passed to gsub.

Details

link[qdap]{space_fill} is useful for keeping grouped words together. Many functions in qdap take a char.keep or char2space argument. This can be used to prepare multi word phrases (e.g. proper nouns) as a single unit.

Value

Returns a character vector with trailing and/or leading spaces.

Note

link[qdap]{strip} by default does not remove the double tilde "~~" character.

Examples

x <- c("I want to hear the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech.",
    "I also want to go to the white House to see President Obama speak.")

keeps <- c("Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.", "The White House", "President Obama")
space_fill(x, keeps)
strip(space_fill(x, keeps))

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