You can use regular expressions. ?regex and/or the stringr package are good places to start. Of course, you have to define "stop words."
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Elahe chalabi via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way in R to count the number of stop words (English) of a string > using tm package? > > str="Mhm . Alright . There's um a young boy that's getting a cookie jar . And > it he's uh in bad shape because uh the thing is falling over . And in the > picture the mother is washing dishes and doesn't see it . And so is the the > water is overflowing in the sink . And the dishes might get falled over if > you don't fell fall over there there if you don't get it . And it there it's > a picture of a kitchen window . And the curtains are very uh distinct . But > the water is still flowing . > > 255 Levels: A boy's on the uh falling off the stool picking up cookies . The > girl's reaching up for it . The girl the lady is is drying dishes . The water > is uh running over uh from the sink into the floor . The window's opened . > Dishes on the on the counter . She's outside ." > > Thanks for any help! > Elahe > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
