tm (version 0.3-1)

removeSparseTerms: Remove Sparse Terms from a Term-Document Matrix

Description

Remove sparse terms from a term-document matrix.

Usage

removeSparseTerms(object, sparse)

Arguments

object

A term-document matrix.

sparse

a numeric for the maximal allowed sparsity

Value

• A term-document matrix where those terms from object are removed which have at least a sparse percentage of empty (i.e., terms occurring 0 times in a document) elements. I.e., the resulting matrix contains only terms with a sparse factor of less than sparse.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)
removeSparseTerms(tdm, 0.2)