R: Count the number of sentences

nsentence {quanteda} | R Documentation

## Count the number of sentences

### Description

Return the count of sentences in a corpus or character object.

### Usage

    nsentence(x)

### Arguments

`x` | a character or corpus whose sentences will be counted

### Value

count(s) of the total sentences per text

### Note

`nsentence()` relies on the boundaries definitions in the stringi package (see stri_opts_brkiter). It does not count sentences correctly if the text has been transformed to lower case, and for this reason `nsentence()` will issue a warning if it detects all lower-cased text.

### Examples

    # simple example
    txt <- c(text1 = "This is a sentence: second part of first sentence.",
             text2 = "A word. Repeated repeated.",
             text3 = "Mr. Jones has a PhD from the LSE.  Second sentence.")
    nsentence(txt)

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