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removeNumbers

Remove Numbers from a Text Document

Description

Remove numbers from a text document.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
removeNumbers(x, ucp = FALSE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
removeNumbers(x, ...)

Arguments

`x`	a character vector or text document.
`ucp`	a logical specifying whether to use Unicode character properties for determining digit characters. If `FALSE` (default), characters in the ASCII `[:digit:]` class (i.e., the decimal digits from 0 to 9) are taken; if `TRUE`, the characters with Unicode general category `Nd` (Decimal_Number).
`...`	arguments to be passed to or from methods; in particular, from the `PlainTextDocument` method to the `character` method.

Value

The text document without numbers.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
removeNumbers(crude[[1]])

tm

Text Mining Package

v0.7-8

GPL-3

Authors

Ingo Feinerer [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-8338>), Kurt Hornik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>), Artifex Software, Inc. [ctb, cph] (pdf_info.ps taken from GPL Ghostscript)

Initial release

2020-11-17