stemDocument {tm}R Documentation

Stem Words

Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
stemDocument(x, language = meta(x, "language"))

Arguments

x

A text document.

language

A character giving the language for stemming.

Details

The argument language is passed over to wordStem as the name of the Snowball stemmer.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
stemDocument(crude[[1]])

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