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removeSparseTerms

Remove Sparse Terms from a Term-Document Matrix

Description

Remove sparse terms from a document-term or term-document matrix.

Usage

removeSparseTerms(x, sparse)

Arguments

`x`	A `DocumentTermMatrix` or a `TermDocumentMatrix`.
`sparse`	A numeric for the maximal allowed sparsity in the range from bigger zero to smaller one.

Value

A term-document matrix where those terms from x 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)

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