qdap (version 2.4.6)

replace_contraction: Replace Contractions

Description

This function replaces contractions with long form.

Usage

replace_contraction(
  text.var,
  contraction = qdapDictionaries::contractions,
  replace = NULL,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  sent.cap = TRUE
)

Value

Returns a vector with contractions replaced.

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

contraction

A two column key of contractions (column 1) and expanded form replacements (column 2) or a vector of contractions. Default is to use qdapDictionaries's contractions data set.

replace

A vector of expanded form replacements if a data frame is not supplied to the contraction argument.

ignore.case

logical. If TRUE replaces without regard to capitalization.

sent.cap

logical. If TRUE capitalizes the beginning of every sentence.

See Also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_number, replace_symbol

Examples

if (FALSE) {
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)
}