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Calculate word frequency

Usage

count_words(
  term,
  exclude_words = NULL,
  stop_words = stopwords(),
  min_word_length = 1,
  tokenizer = "words",
  transform_case = tolower,
  remove_numbers = TRUE,
  remove_punctuation = TRUE,
  custom_transformer = NULL,
  stemming = FALSE,
  dictionary = NULL
)

Arguments

term

A vector of description texts.

exclude_words

The words that should be excluded.

stop_words

The stop words that should be be removed.

min_word_length

Minimum length of the word to be counted.

tokenizer

The tokenizer function, one of the values accepted by tm::termFreq.

transform_case

The function normalizing lettercase of the words.

remove_numbers

Whether to remove numbers.

remove_punctuation

Whether to remove punctuation.

custom_transformer

Custom function that transforms words.

stemming

Whether to only keep the roots of inflected words.

dictionary

A vector of words to be counted (if given all other words will be excluded).

Value

A data frame with words and frequencies.

Examples

gm = readRDS(system.file("extdata", "random_GO_BP_sim_mat.rds", package = "simplifyEnrichment"))
go_id = rownames(gm)
go_term = AnnotationDbi::select(GO.db::GO.db, keys = go_id, columns = "TERM")$TERM
#> 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns
count_words(go_term) |> head()
#>                  word freq
#> regulation regulation  179
#> process       process   63
#> positive     positive   61
#> cell             cell   59
#> negative     negative   57
#> signaling   signaling   43