| check_text {textclean} | R Documentation |
Uncleaned text may result in errors, warnings, and incorrect results in
subsequent analysis. check_text checks text for potential problems
and suggests possible fixes. Potential text anomalies that are detected
include: factors, missing ending punctuation, empty cells, double punctuation,
non-space after comma, no alphabetic characters, non-ASCII, missing value,
and potentially misspelled words.
check_text(x, file = NULL)
x |
The text variable. |
file |
A connection, or a character string naming the file to print to.
If |
Returns a list with the following potential text faults reports:
non_character- Text that is factor.
missing_ending_punctuation- Text with no endmark at the end of the string.
empty- Text that contains an empty element (i.e., "").
double_punctuation- Text that contains two punctuation marks in the same string.
non_space_after_comma- Text that contains commas with no space after them.
no_alpha- Text that contains string elements with no alphabetic characters.
non_ascii- Text that contains non-ASCII characters.
missing_value- Text that contains missing values (i.e., NA).
containing_escaped- Text that contains escaped (see ?Quotes).
containing_digits- Text that contains digits.
containing_html- Text that potentially contains HTML markup.
indicating_incomplete- Text that contains endmarks that are indicative of incomplete/trailing sentences (e.g., ...).
potentially_misspelled- Text that contains potentially misspelled words.
The output is a list but prints as a pretty formatted output with potential problem elements, the accompanying text, and possible suggestions to fix the text.
## Not run:
x <- c("i like", "<p>i want. </p>thet them ther .", "I am ! that|", "", NA,
""they",were there", ".", " ", "?", "3;", "I like goud eggs!",
"i 4like...", "\\tgreat", "She said \"yes\"")
check_text(x)
print(check_text(x), include.text=FALSE)
y <- c("A valid sentence.", "yet another!")
check_text(y)
## End(Not run)