You need a stemming algorithm. See here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html
Myself, I've had good experience with Rstem. B. > On Jul 31, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Riaan Van Der Walt <riaan.vanderw...@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 > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.