qdap (version 0.2.5)

all_words: Searches Text Column for Words

Description

A convenience function to find words that begin with or contain a letter chunk and returns the frequency counts of the number of occurrences of each word.

Usage

all_words(text.var, begins.with = NULL, contains = NULL,
    alphabetical = TRUE)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

begins.with

This argument takes a word chunk. Default is NULL. Use this if searching for a word beginning with the word chunk.

contains

This argument takes a word chunk. Default is NULL. Use this if searching for a word containing the word chunk.

alphabetical

logical. If TRUE orders rows alphabetically, if FALSE orders the rows by frequency.

Value

• Returns a dataframe with frequency counts of words that begin with or contain the provided word chunk.

See Also

term.match

Examples

x1 <- all_words(raj$dialogue, begins.with="re")
head(x1, 10)
x2 <- all_words(raj$dialogue, "q")
head(x2, 10)
all_words(raj$dialogue, contains="conc")
x3 <- all_words(raj$dialogue)
head(x3, 10)