Understanding tidytext
Learn about tidytext in R and simplify text analysis within the tidyverse for easier and more organized data processing.
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What is tidytext?
The tidytext package is a text mining package in R designed for compatibility with the tidyverse. It provides a framework for text mining and analysis using tidy data principles. It was developed by Julia Silge and David Robinson as part of the tidyverse ecosystem, which aims to make data analysis in R more efficient and intuitive.
Note: “The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.”
Wickham, Hadley. R for Data Science. O'Reilly, 2017
The tidytext package provides a set of tools for transforming text data into a format that is suitable for analysis. These tools include functions for tokenizing ...