crqanlp (version 0.3)

get_text_series: Get a text series

Description

Acquire (and process) texts from different resources

Usage

get_text_series(rsrc, typ='file',removeStopwords=F)

Arguments

rsrc

The resource text file

typ

A flag indicating the type of resource file in input: typ = "file"" (it's a file name); typ = "ulr"" (it's a url, and the file gets downloaded) = ; typ = "string | raw_chars" (it's a literal string); typ = "tibble" (it's a text formatted as tidytext by tibble)

removeStopwords

A boolean: TRUE (remove stop words) - FALSE (it retains them)

Value

It returns the vector of text already converted into a numerical identifier.

Details

A convenience function to obtain text from different types of source. It can be used to access text from the internet, from a file, from a tibble text, or just from a literal string. The user can also choose whether to remove stop words (or not).

Examples

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## from a literal string
rsrc = "here is a raw raw raw string, literally"
ts = get_text_series(rsrc,typ='string')
print(ts)

## from tibble
library(gutenbergr)
## let's get Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll
# gutenberg_works(author == "Carroll, Lewis") 
rsrc = gutenberg_download(11) ## take the text
ts = get_text_series(rsrc, typ = "tibble", removeStopwords = TRUE)
print(ts[1:10])

## from URL
rsrc = "http://www.omegahat.net"
ts = get_text_series(rsrc, typ = "url")
print(ts[1:10])


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