replace_contraction: Replace Contractions

In textclean: Text Cleaning Tools

Description

This function replaces contractions with long form.

Usage

replace_contraction(x, contraction.key = lexicon::key_contractions,
  ignore.case = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	The text variable.
contraction.key	A two column hash of contractions (column 1) and expanded form replacements (column 2). Default is to use key_contractions data set.
ignore.case	logical. Should case be ignored?
...	ignored.

Value

Returns a vector with contractions replaced.

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- c("Mr. Jones isn't going.",  
    "Check it out what's going on.",
    "He's here but didn't go.",
    "the robot at t.s. wasn't nice", 
    "he'd like it if i'd go away")

replace_contraction(x)

## End(Not run)

Example output

[1] "Mr. Jones is not going."             "Check it out what is going on."     
[3] "he is here but did not go."          "the robot at t.s. was not nice"     
[5] "he would like it if I would go away"

textclean documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:22 a.m.