TSTr (version 1.2)

newTree: Creates a new ternary search tree

Description

Creates a new ternary search tree containing the input words

Usage

newTree(input)

Arguments

input

a filepath to read from or a character vector containing the strings.

Value

An object of class `list` and `tstTree`.

Details

Creates a new tree and adds the words contained in a vector or a file to the tree. Reports each 10000 words it has added to the tree and takes around 30 sec. per 10k words on a 8Gb RAM computer. In addition, reports the total number of words and nodes when finished.

See Also

addToTree

Examples

fruitTree <- newTree(c("apple", "orange"))
fileConn <- file("XMIwords.txt")
writeLines(head(XMIwords,100), fileConn)
close(fileConn)
enTree <- newTree("XMIwords.txt")