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sparsity

Compute the sparsity of a document-feature matrix

Description

Return the proportion of sparseness of a document-feature matrix, equal to the proportion of cells that have zero counts.

Usage

sparsity(x)

Arguments

`x`	the document-feature matrix

Examples

dfmat <- dfm(data_corpus_inaugural)
sparsity(dfmat)
sparsity(dfm_trim(dfmat, min_termfreq = 5))

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