R: Coercion and checking methods for corpus objects

as.character.corpus {quanteda} | R Documentation

## Coercion and checking methods for corpus objects

### Description

Coercion functions to and from corpus objects, including conversion to a plain character object; and checks for whether an object is a corpus.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'corpus'
    as.character(x, use.names = TRUE, ...)

    is.corpus(x)

    as.corpus(x)

### Arguments

`x` | object to be coerced or checked
`use.names` | logical; preserve (document) names if `TRUE`
`...` | additional arguments used by specific methods

### Value

`as.character()` returns the corpus as a plain character vector, with or without named elements.

`is.corpus` returns `TRUE` if the object is a corpus.

`as.corpus()` upgrades a corpus object to the newest format. object.

### Note

`as.character(x)` where `x` is a corpus is equivalent to calling the deprecated `texts(x)`.

[Package quanteda version 3.1.0 Index]