space_fill function

Replace Spaces

Replace spaces in words groups that should be grouped together.

space_fill(
  text.var,
  terms,
  sep = "~~",
  rm.extra = TRUE,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  fixed = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• text.var: The text variable.
• terms: A character vector of grouped word terms to insert a new separating/space character.
• sep: A character string to separate the terms.
• rm.extra: logical. Should trailing, leading and > 1 continuous white spaces be removed?
• ignore.case: logical. If FALSE, the pattern matching is case sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored during matching.
• fixed: logical. If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Overrides all conflicting arguments.
• ``: Other arguments passed to gsub.

Returns

Returns a character vector with extra, trailing and/or leading spaces removed.

Details

space_fill is useful for keeping grouped words together. Many functions in qdap take a char.keep or char2space argument. This can be used to prepare multi word phrases (e.g., proper nouns) as a single unit.

Note

link[qdap]{strip} by default does not remove the double tilde "~~" character.

Examples

## Not run:

x <- c("I want to hear the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech.",
    "I also want to go to the white House to see President Obama speak.")

keeps <- c("Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.", "The White House", "President Obama")
space_fill(x, keeps)
strip(space_fill(x, keeps))
## End(Not run)