[R] find similar words in text

[Bert Gunter]

**Before** posting:

1. Search: e.g. "text processing R"

2. Check CRAN Task views:
e.g. "Natural Language Processing"
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html

3. Use R's search facility:  e.g. help.search("character") which would
lead you to ?grep among others, which might suggest something like

grep("whal",strsplit(yourtext, split = " ", fixed = TRUE), fixed = TRUE)

... although this is likely too simple minded for a text as large as
Moby Dick. But it depends on what you want to do.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Riaan Van Der Walt
<Riaan.VanDerWalt at nwu.ac.za> wrote:
> I am new to R.
> Busy with Text Analysis.
>
> Need a script to find e.g
>
> whale, whales, whale's, whaler, whalers, whaling,... in Moby Dick
>
> Riaan
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