space_fill. qdap 2.2.0

Usage

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.

Replace Spaces

Value

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

Description

Replace spaces in words groups that should be grouped together.

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

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# 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))
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>