preprocess_reviews {Goodreader}R Documentation

Preprocess review text for topic modeling

Description

This function preprocesses the review text by optionally filtering non-English reviews, removing punctuation, converting to lowercase, removing stopwords, and stemming.

Usage

preprocess_reviews(reviews, english_only = TRUE)

Arguments

reviews

A data frame containing the scraped reviews

english_only

A logical value indicating whether to filter out non-English reviews. Default is TRUE

Value

A list containing the following elements:

Examples


# Create a temporary file with sample book IDs
temp_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
writeLines(c("1420", "2767052", "10210"), temp_file)

# Scrape reviews
reviews <- scrape_reviews(temp_file, num_reviews = 5, use_parallel = FALSE)

# Preprocess the reviews
preprocessed <- preprocess_reviews(reviews, english_only = TRUE)

# Print the document-term matrix
print(preprocessed$dtm)

# Clean up: remove the temporary file
file.remove(temp_file)


[Package Goodreader version 0.1.2 Index]