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as.character.corpus

Coercion and checking methods for corpus objects

Description

Coercion functions to and from corpus objects, including conversion to a plain character object; and checks for whether an object is a corpus.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'corpus'
as.character(x, use.names = TRUE, ...)

is.corpus(x)

as.corpus(x)

Arguments

`x`	object to be coerced or checked
`use.names`	logical; preserve (document) names if `TRUE`
`...`	additional arguments used by specific methods

Value

as.character() returns the corpus as a plain character vector, with or without named elements.

is.corpus returns TRUE if the object is a corpus.

as.corpus() upgrades a corpus object to the newest format. object.

Note

as.character(x) where x is a corpus is equivalent to calling the deprecated texts(x).

quanteda

Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

v3.0.0

GPL-3

Authors

Kenneth Benoit [cre, aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-564X>), Kohei Watanabe [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-5265>), Haiyan Wang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-4311>), Paul Nulty [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-4666>), Adam Obeng [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2906-4775>), Stefan Müller [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-4125>), Akitaka Matsuo [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3323-6330>), William Lowe [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1549-6163>), Christian Müller [ctb], European Research Council [fnd] (ERC-2011-StG 283794-QUANTESS)

Initial release