synonyms: Search For Synonyms

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

Description

Search for synonyms that match term(s).

Usage

  synonyms(terms, return.list = TRUE, multiwords = TRUE,
    report.null = TRUE)

  syn(terms, return.list = TRUE, multiwords = TRUE,
    report.null = TRUE)

Arguments

terms	The terms to find synonyms for.
return.list	logical. If TRUE returns the output for multiple synonyms as a list by search term rather than a vector.
multiwords	logical. IF TRUE retains vector elements that contain phrases (defined as having one or more spaces) rather than a single word.
report.null	logical. If TRUE reports the words that no match was found at the head of the output.

Value

Returns a list of vectors or vector of possible words that match term(s).

References

The synonyms dictionary (see SYNONYM) was generated by web scraping the Reverso Online Dictionary. The word list fed to Reverso is the unique words from the combination of DICTIONARY and labMT.

Examples

synonyms(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"))
head(syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"),
    return.list = FALSE), 30)
syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"), multiwords = FALSE)

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