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RcmdrPlugin.temis (version 0.6.1)

stemDocumentRstem: Stem Words using Rstem

Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm provided by Rstem.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument':
stemDocumentRstem(x, language = tm:::map_IETF_Snowball(Language(x)))
## S3 method for class 'character':
stemDocumentRstem(x, language = "english")

Arguments

x
A text document or a character vector.
language
A character setting the language to be used for stemming. Must be one of the values returned by getStemLanguages().

Details

The argument language is passed over to wordStem as the name of the stemmer.

Examples

Run this code
data("crude")
crude[[1]]

if(require(Rstem))
stemDocumentRstem(crude[[1]])

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