quanteda (version 0.9.2-0)

docnames: get or set document names

Description

Extract the document names from a corpus or a document-feature matrix. of the dfm object.

docnames queries the document names of a corpus or a dfm

docnames <- assigns new values to the document names of a corpus. (Does not work for dfm objects, whose document names are fixed.)

Usage

docnames(x)
## S3 method for class 'corpus':
docnames(x)
docnames(x) <- value
## S3 method for class 'dfm':
docnames(x)

Arguments

x

the object with docnames

value

a character vector of the same length as x

Value

• docnames returns a character vector of the document names

  docnames<- assigns a character vector of the document names in a corpus

Examples

# query the document names of the inaugural speech corpus
docnames(inaugCorpus) <- paste("Speech", 1:ndoc(inaugCorpus), sep="")

# reassign the document names of the inaugural speech corpus
docnames(inaugCorpus) <- paste("Speech", 1:ndoc(inaugCorpus), sep="")

# query the document names of a dfm
docnames(dfm(inaugTexts[1:5]))