qprep function

Quick Preparation of Text

Wrapper for bracketX, replace_number, replace_symbol, replace_abbreviation

and scrubber to quickly prepare text for analysis. Care should be taken with this function to ensure data is properly formatted and complete.

qprep(
  text.var,
  rm.dash = TRUE,
  bracket = "all",
  missing = NULL,
  names = FALSE,
  abbreviation = qdapDictionaries::abbreviations,
  replace = NULL,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  num.paste = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• text.var: The text variable.
• rm.dash: logical. If TRUE dashes will be removed.
• bracket: The type of bracket (and encased text) to remove. This is one of the strings "curly", "square", "round", "angle" and "all". These strings correspond to: {, [, (, < or all four types. Also takes the argument NULL which turns off this parsing technique.
• missing: Value to assign to empty cells.
• names: logical. If TRUE the sentences are given as the names of the counts.
• abbreviation: A two column key of abbreviations (column 1) and long form replacements (column 2) or a vector of abbreviations. Default is to use qdap's abbreviations data set. Also takes the argument NULL which turns off this parsing technique.
• replace: A vector of long form replacements if a data frame is not supplied to the abbreviation argument.
• ignore.case: logical. If TRUE replaces without regard to capitalization.
• num.paste: logical. If TURE a the elements of larger numbers are separated with spaces. If FALSE the elements will be joined without spaces. Also takes the argument NULL which turns off this parsing technique.
• ``: Other arguments passed to replace_symbol.

Note

Care should be taken with this function to ensure data is properly formatted and complete.

Examples

## Not run:

x <- "I like 60 (laughter) #d-bot and $6 @ the store w/o 8p.m."
qprep(x)
## End(Not run)

See Also

bracketX, replace_abbreviation, replace_number, replace_symbol