qdap (version 0.2.2)

incomplete.replace: Denote Incomplete End Marks With "|"

Description

Replaces incomplete sentence end marks (.., ..., .?, ..?, en & em dash etc.) with "|".

Usage

incomplete.replace(text.var, scan.mode = FALSE)

  incomp(text.var, scan.mode = FALSE)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

scan.mode

logical. If TRUE only scans and reports incomplete sentences.

Value

• Returns a text variable (character sting) with incomplete sentence marks (.., ..., .?, ..?, en & em dash etc. replaced with "|". If scan mode is TRUE returns a data frame with incomplete sentence location.

Examples

x <- c("the...",  "I.?", "you.", "threw..", "we?")
incomplete.replace(x)
incomp(x)
incomp(x, scan.mode = TRUE)