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?
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