Greetings,
Apologies if this turns out to be a very silly question, but because I am the
only person learning/using R at my workplace, I have no choice but to ask folks
here.
I have been using Gsub to change some expressions in my Corpus object. After
applying the gsub function, say
newCorpus<- gsub("game","war",newCorpus, fixed=TRUE)
an object of class character is returned by the gsub function, as is
understandable, like so:
[1] this is the text of the 1st document....[1000] this is the text of the
1000th document.
However, all such text is enclosed as such:
[1] "c(\"this is the text of the 1st document.\", \"\\a\")" ...[1000] "c(\"this
is the text of the 1000th document.\", \"\\a\")"
The worst part is that I tried recreating the problem with another example to
post here, but I face no such problem with the example. So, after banging my
head against the computer for two days now, I still remain clueless as to why
this is happening. I was wondering if somebody had an explanation to why this
happens? That will be very helpful.
The only thing I can think of is that I had initially converted MS word
documents into txt files, and then imported them using R's plain text reader.
Could this be the issue?
Thanks.
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