Convert a quanteda dictionary to a long data.table format
This is used internally in the tCorpus dictionary search functions, but can be used manually for more control. For example, adding numeric scores for sentiment dictionaries, and specifying which label/code to use in search_dictionary().
melt_quanteda_dict(dict, column = "code", .index = NULL)
dict |
The quanteda dictionary |
column |
The name of the column with the label/code. If dictionary contains multiple levels, additional columns are added with the suffix _l[i], where [i] is the level. |
.index |
Do not use (used for recursive melting) |
A data.table
d = quanteda::data_dictionary_LSD2015 melt_quanteda_dict(d)
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