removePunctuation
From tm v0.6-2
by Ingo Feinerer
Remove Punctuation Marks from a Text Document
Remove punctuation marks from a text document.
Usage
"removePunctuation"(x, preserve_intra_word_dashes = FALSE)
"removePunctuation"(x, ...)Arguments
- x
- A character or text document.
- preserve_intra_word_dashes
- a logical specifying whether intra-word dashes should be kept.
- ...
- passed over argument
preserve_intra_word_dashes.
Value
-
The character or text document
x without punctuation marks
(besides intra-word dashes if preserve_intra_word_dashes is
set).
See Also
getTransformations to list available transformation
(mapping) functions.
regex shows the class [:punct:] of punctuation
characters.
Examples
data("crude")
crude[[14]]
removePunctuation(crude[[14]])
removePunctuation(crude[[14]], preserve_intra_word_dashes = TRUE)
Community examples
chanchalsheik@gmail.com
at
Nov 12, 2017
tm
v0.7-1
#install.packages("tm") #library(tm) #REMOVE PUNCTUATION # mydatac is the name of the data column tm_map(mydatac, removePunctuation)