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tm_filter

Filter and Index Functions on Corpora

Description

Interface to apply filter and index functions to corpora.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)

Arguments

`x`	A corpus.
`FUN`	a filter function taking a text document or a string (if `x` is a `SimpleCorpus`) as input and returning the logical value `TRUE` or `FALSE`.
`...`	arguments to `FUN`.

Value

tm_filter returns a corpus containing documents where FUN matches, whereas tm_index only returns the corresponding indices.

Examples

data("crude")
# Full-text search
tm_filter(crude, FUN = function(x) any(grep("co[m]?pany", content(x))))

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