[R] extracting text from wordnet using synonym()

Dear group, There are postings on extracting partial string using sub()/gsub()/gsubfn() but I still couldn't figure this one out. Supposed I am pulling the synonyms of help using synonyms(help) from wordnet and get the followings: synonyms(help) [1] c(\aid\, \assist\, \assistance\, \help\)

Re: [R] extracting text from wordnet using synonym()

Try this: Str - c(c(\aid\, \assist\, \assistance\, \help\), c(\aid\, \assistance\, \help\)) unlist(sapply(Str, function(x)dget(textConnection(x)), USE.NAMES = FALSE)) On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Kelvin Lam lamk...@gmail.com wrote: Dear group, There are postings on extracting

Re: [R] extracting text from wordnet using synonym()

Or a variation: unlist(lapply(parse(text = Str), eval)) [1] aidassist assistance help aid [6] assistance help On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Henrique Dallazuannawww...@gmail.com wrote: Try this: Str - c(c(\aid\, \assist\, \assistance\, \help\),         c(\aid\,

Re: [R] extracting text from wordnet using synonym()

Thank you both! It works now. (Need to check out the parsing ) Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Or a variation: unlist(lapply(parse(text = Str), eval)) [1] aidassist assistance help aid [6] assistance help On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Henrique