qdap 2.2.0

Replace Contractions

Usage

replace_contraction(text.var, contraction = qdapDictionaries::contractions, replace = NULL, ignore.case = TRUE, sent.cap = TRUE)

Arguments

text.var
The text variable.
contraction
A two column key of contractions (column 1) and expanded form replacements (column 2) or a vector of contractions. Default is to use qdapDictionaries's contractions data set.
replace
A vector of expanded form replacements if a data frame is not supplied to the contraction argument.
ignore.case
logical. If TRUE replaces without regard to capitalization.
sent.cap
logical. If TRUE capitalizes the beginning of every sentence.

Replace Contractions

Value

Returns a vector with contractions replaced.

Description

This function replaces contractions with long form.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# x <- c("Mr. Jones isn't going.",
#     "Check it out what's going on.",
#     "He's here but didn't go.",
#     "the robot at t.s. wasn't nice",
#     "he'd like it if i'd go away")
# 
# replace_contraction(x)
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>

See also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_number, replace_symbol