R: Remove Words from a Text Document

removeWords {tm} | R Documentation

## Remove Words from a Text Document

### Description

Remove words from a text document.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'character'
    removeWords(x, words)
    ## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
    removeWords(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | A character or text document.
`words` | A character vector giving the words to be removed.
`...` | passed over argument `words`.

### Value

The character or text document without the specified words.

### See Also

`getTransformations` to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

`remove_stopwords` provided by package tau.

### Examples

    data("crude")
    crude[[1]]
    removeWords(crude[[1]], stopwords("english"))

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