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Dtm2Docs: Convert a DTM to a Character Vector of documents

Description

This function takes a sparse matrix (DTM) as input and returns a character vector whose length is equal to the number of rows of the input DTM.

Usage

Dtm2Docs(dtm, ...)

Value

Returns a character vector. Each entry of this vector corresponds to the rows of dtm.

Arguments

dtm

A sparse Matrix from the matrix package whose rownames correspond to documents and colnames correspond to words

...

Other arguments to be passed to TmParallelApply. See note, below.

Examples

# Load a pre-formatted dtm and topic model
data(nih_sample)
data(nih_sample_dtm) 

# see the original documents
nih_sample$ABSTRACT_TEXT[ 1:3 ]

# see the new documents re-structured from the DTM
new_docs <- Dtm2Docs(dtm = nih_sample_dtm)

new_docs[ 1:3 ]