qdap (version 2.4.3)

replace_contraction: Replace Contractions

Description

This function replaces contractions with long form.

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.

Value

Returns a vector with contractions replaced.

See Also

bracketX, qprep, replace_abbreviation, replace_number, replace_symbol

Examples

# NOT RUN {
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)
# }