quanteda (version 0.9.9-3)

compress: compress a dfm by combining similarly named dimensions

Description

"Compresses" a dfm whose dimension names are the same, for either documents or features. This may happen, for instance, if features are made equivalent through application of a thesaurus. It may also occur after lower-casing or stemming the features of a dfm, but this should only be done in very rare cases (approaching never: it's better to do this before constructing the dfm.) It could also be needed , after a cbind.dfm or rbind.dfm operation.

Usage

compress(x, ...)
"compress"(x, margin = c("both", "documents", "features"), ...)

Arguments

x

input object, a dfm

...

additional arguments passed from generic to specific methods

margin

character indicating which margin to compress on, either "documents", "features", or "both" (default)

Examples

## Not run: 
# mat <- rbind(dfm(c("b A A", "C C a b B"), toLower = FALSE, verbose = FALSE),
#              dfm("A C C C C C", toLower = FALSE, verbose = FALSE))
# colnames(mat) <- toLower(featnames(mat))
# mat
# compress(mat, margin = "documents")
# compress(mat, margin = "features")
# compress(mat)
# 
# # no effect if no compression needed
# compress(dfm(data_char_inaugural, verbose = FALSE))
# ## End(Not run)