qdap (version 2.2.4)

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

Run this code
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)

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