quanteda (version 0.8.0-3)

trim: Trim a dfm using threshold-based or random feature selection

Description

Returns a document by feature matrix reduced in size based on document and term frequency, and/or subsampling.

Usage

trim(x, minCount = 1, minDoc = 1, nsample = NULL, verbose = TRUE)
## S3 method for class 'dfm':
trim(x, minCount = 1, minDoc = 1, nsample = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE)
trimdfm(x, ...)

Arguments

x

document-feature matrix of dfm-class

minCount

minimum feature count

minDoc

minimum number of documents in which a feature appears

nsample

how many features to retain (based on random selection)

verbose

print messages

...

only included to allow legacy trimdfm to pass arguments to trim

Value

• A dfm-class object reduced in features

Examples

dtm <- dfm(inaugCorpus)
dim(dtm)
dtmReduced <- trim(dtm, minCount=10, minDoc=2) # only words occuring >=5 times and in >=2 docs
dim(dtmReduced)
topfeatures(dtmReduced, decreasing=FALSE)
dtmSampled <- trim(dtm, minCount=20, nsample=50)  # sample 50 words over 20 count
dtmSampled # 57 x 50 words
topfeatures(dtmSampled)