R: Stem Words

stemDocument {tm} | R Documentation

## Stem Words

### Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'character'
    stemDocument(x, language = "english")
    ## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
    stemDocument(x, language = meta(x, "language"))

### Arguments

`x` | A character vector or text document.
`language` | A string giving the language for stemming.

### Details

The argument `language` is passed over to `wordStem` as the name of the Snowball stemmer.

### Examples

    data("crude")
    inspect(crude[[1]])
    inspect(stemDocument(crude[[1]]))

[Package tm version 0.7-5 Index]