sentometrics (version 0.5.6)

to_sentocorpus: Convert a quanteda corpus object into a sentocorpus object

Description

Converts a quanteda corpus object into a sentocorpus object, by adding user-supplied dates and doing proper rearranging.

Usage

to_sentocorpus(corpus, dates, do.clean = FALSE)

Arguments

corpus

a quanteda corpus object.

dates

a sequence of dates as "yyyy-mm-dd", of the same length as the number of documents in the input corpus.

do.clean

see do.clean argument from the sento_corpus function.

Value

A sentocorpus object, as returned by the sento_corpus function.

See Also

corpus, sento_corpus

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("usnews", package = "sentometrics")

# reshuffle usnews data.frame
dates <- usnews$date
usnews$id <- usnews$date <- NULL
usnews$wrong <- "notNumeric"
colnames(usnews)[1] <- "myTexts"

# set up quanteda corpus object
corpusQ <- quanteda::corpus(usnews, text_field = "myTexts")

# corpus conversion
corpusS <- to_sentocorpus(corpusQ, dates = dates)

# }