An overview of a range of packages for working with text in R.
Transcending its origins as a programming language for statistics, R provides excellent tools for working with text. This tidyverse-based talk will provide an overview of some of the fantastic packages available for this, including (but not limited to) stringr
, RVerbalExpressions
, tidytext
, wordcloud
and ggwordcloud
.
Event: RLadies Toronto
Date: October 5th, 2019
Time: 14:00-16:00 EDT
Location: Stewart Building, 149 College Street, Toronto
I then gave an updated version of the talk a few months later (links at the top relate to this version):
Event: RLadies Tbilisi
Date: July 4th, 2020
Time: 09:00-10:00 GMT
Location: Zoom
Keyboard Shortcuts for Slides:
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Text and figures are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-SA 4.0. Source code is available at https://github.com/EllaKaye/ellakaye-distill, unless otherwise noted. The figures that have been reused from other sources don't fall under this license and can be recognized by a note in their caption: "Figure from ...".
For attribution, please cite this work as
Kaye (2019, Oct. 5). ELLA KAYE: Working with text in R. Retrieved from https://ellakaye.rbind.io/talks/2019-10-05-working-with-text-in-r/
BibTeX citation
@misc{kaye2019working, author = {Kaye, Ella}, title = {ELLA KAYE: Working with text in R}, url = {https://ellakaye.rbind.io/talks/2019-10-05-working-with-text-in-r/}, year = {2019} }