genderizeR (version 2.0.0)

textPrepare: Preparing text vector for gender prediction

Description

textPrepare Takes a text vector and converts it into a vector of unique terms. This function is used by default by the findGivenNames function as text pre-processor before sending a query to the API.

Usage

textPrepare(x, textPrepMessages = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A vector of character strings.

textPrepMessages

If TRUE verbose output of the preparing process is shown on the console.

Value

A vector of unique terms with at least two characters.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x = c("Winston J. Durant, ASHP past president, dies at 84", 
      "Gold Badge of Honour of the DGAI Prof. Dr. med. Norbert R. Roewer Wuerzburg",
      "The contribution of professor Yu.S. Martynov (1921-2008) to Russian neurology", 
      "JAN BASZKIEWICZ (3 JANUARY 1930 - 27 JANUARY 2011) IN MEMORIAM", 
      "Maria Sklodowska-Curie")

head(textPrepare(x))
# [1] "ashp"         "at"           "badge"        "baszkiewicz" 
# [5] "contribution" "curie

# }
# NOT RUN {
# }