corpus 0.10.2 Unreleased

Added rmarkdown to SUGGESTS.

corpus 0.10.1 2020-04-16

BUG FIXES

corpus 0.10.0.9000 Unreleased

(no changes)

corpus 0.10.0 (2017-12-12) 2017-12-12

NEW FEATURES

  • Implement length<- for corpus_text objects.

  • Added str() method for corpus_text objects. Currently just a minimal implementation; this may change in the future.

  • Add ANSI styling to corpus_frame objects.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Remove text_length(). Use text_ntoken() instead.

  • Remove as_utf8(), utf8_valid(), utf8_normalize(), utf8_encode(), utf8_format(), utf8_print(), and utf8_width(); these functions are in the utf8 package now.

corpus 0.9.4 (2017-10-31) 2017-10-31

BUG FIXES

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

corpus 0.9.3 (2017-10-02) 2017-10-02

NEW FEATURES

  • Allow user-supplied stemming functions in text_filter().

  • Add new_stemmer() function to make a stemming function from a set of (term, stem) pairs.

  • Add stem_snowball() function for the Snowball stemming algorithms (similar to SnowballC::wordStem, but only stemming “letter” tokens, not “number”, “punct”, or “symbol”).

  • Apply filter combine rules before stemming rather than after.

  • Remove dropped tokens rather than replace them with NA.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Replace white-space in types with connector (_).

  • Switch to "radix" sort algorithm for consistent, fast term ordering on all platforms, regardless of locale.

  • Set combine = NULL be default for text filters.

  • Make map_quote only change apostrophe and single quote characters, not double quote.

BUG FIXES

  • Fix spurious rchk warnings.

  • Fix failing tests on R version 3.3.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

corpus 0.9.2 (2017-09-20) 2017-09-20

NEW FEATURES

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Switch as_utf8() default argument to normalize = FALSE.

  • Re-order as_corpus_text() and as_corpus_frame() arguments; make both accept ... arguments to override individual text filter properties.

  • Add missing single-letter initials to English abbreviation list.

  • Adaptively increase buffer size for read_ndjson() so that large files can be read quickly.

  • Make summary() on a corpus_text object report statistics for the number of tokens and types.

  • Switch to 2-letter language codes for stemming algorithms.

BUG FIXES

  • Fix bug in utf8_normalize() when the input contains a backslash (\).

  • Fix bug in term_matrix() column names (non-ASCII names were getting replaced by Unicode escapes).

  • Work around R Windows bug in converting native to UTF-8; described at https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17329 .

  • Make comparison operations on text vectors keep names if arguments have them.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

corpus 0.9.1 (2017-08-20) 2017-08-20

BUG FIXES

  • Fix buffer overrun for case folding some Greek letters.

  • Fix memory leak in read_ndjson().

  • Fix memory leak in JSON object deserialization.

  • Fix memory leak in term_stats().

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Rename wnaffect to affect_wordnet.

corpus 0.9.0 (2017-08-19) 2017-08-19

NEW FEATURES

  • Add corpus(), as_corpus(), is_corpus() functions.

  • Make text_split() split into evenly-sized blocks, with the ‘size’ argument specifying the maximum block size.

  • Added text_stats() function.

  • Added text_match() function to return matching terms as a factor.

  • Implemented text subset assignment operators [<- and [[<-.

  • Added utf8_normalize() function for translating to NFC normal form, applying case and compatibility maps.

  • Added text_sub() for getting token sub-sequences.

  • Added text_length() for text length, including NA tokens.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Add new vignette, “Introduction to corpus”.

  • Add random argument to text_locate for random order.

  • Change format.corpus_frame to use elastic column widths for text.

  • Allow rows = -1 for print.corpus_frame to print all rows.

  • Following quanteda, add “will” to the English stop word list.

  • Add special handling for hyphens so that, for example, “world-wide” is a single token (but “-world-wide-” is three tokens).

  • Merged “url” and “symbol” word categories. Removed “other” word category (ignore these characters).

  • Change stemmer so that it only modifies tokens of kind “letter”, preserving “number”, “symbol”, “url”, etc.

  • Switched to more efficient c.corpus_text() function.

  • Make text_locate() return “text” column as a factor.

  • Constrain text names() to be unique, non-missing.

  • Added “names” argument to as_text() for overriding default names.

BUG FIXES

  • Added checks for underflow in read_ndjson() double deserialization.

  • Fixed bug in text_filter<- where assignment did not make a deep copy of the object.

  • Fixed bug in utf8_format(), utf8_print(), utf8_width() where internal double quotes were not escaped.

  • Fixed rchk, UBSAN warnings.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Renamed term_counts() to term_stats().

  • Removed deprecated functions token_filter() and sentence_filter().

  • Removed term column from text_locate() output.

  • Removed map_compat option from ext_filter(); use utf8_normalize() instead if you need to apply compatibility maps.

corpus 0.8.0 (2017-07-18) 2017-07-19

NEW FEATURES

  • Added text_filter() generic.

  • Added text_filter()<- setter for text vectors.

  • Use a text’s text_filter() attribute as a default in all text_* functions expecting a filter argument.

  • Added the Federalist Papers dataset (federalist).

  • Added functions for validating and converting to UTF-8: as_utf8(), utf8_valid().

  • Added functions for formatting and printing utf8 text: utf8_encode(), utf8_format(), utf8_print(), utf8_valid(), and utf8_width().

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Handle @mentions, #hashtags, and URLs in word tokenizer.

  • term_counts() now reports the support for each term (the number of texts containing the term), and has options for restricting output by the minimum and maximum support.

  • Added new class corpus_frame to support better printing of data frame objects: left-align text data, truncate output to screen width, display emoji on Mac OS. Use this class for all data frame return values.

  • Added a “unicode” vignette.

  • Converted the “chinese” demo to a vignette. Thanks to Will Lowe for contributing.

  • Make text_split() and term_frame() return parent text as a factor.

  • Remove stringsAsFactors option from read_ndjson(); deserialize all JSON string fields as character by default.

  • read_ndjson() de-serializes zero-length arrays as integer(), logical(), etc. instead of as NULL.

  • Allow user interrupts (control-C) in all long-running C computations.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Deprecate token_filter() and sentence_filter().

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed a bug where read_ndjson() would de-serialize a boolean null as FALSE instead of NA.

corpus 0.7.0 (2017-06-22) 2017-06-22

NEW FEATURES

  • Add text_locate(), for searching for specific terms in text, reporting the contexts of the occurrences (“Key words in context”).

  • Add text_count() and text_detect() for counting term occurrences or checking for a term’s existence in a text.

  • Add text_types() and text_ntype() for returning the unique types in a text, or counting types.

  • Add text_nsentence() for counting sentences.

  • Add term_frame(), reporting term frequencies as a data frame with columns "text", "term", and "count".

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Add transpose argument to term_matrix().

  • Add new version of format.corpus_text() that is faster and aware of character widths, in particular, Emoji and East Asian character widths.

  • Normalize token filter combine, drop, drop_except, stem_except arguments, to allow passing cased versions of these arguments.

  • Set combine = abbreviations("english") by default.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

BUG FIXES

corpus 0.6.0 (2017-06-06) 2017-06-06

NEW FEATURES

  • Add ngrams options for term_counts() and term_matrix().

  • Add sentence break suppressions (special handling for abbreviations); the default behavior for text_split(, "sentences") is to use a set of English abbreviations as suppressions.

  • Add option to treat CR and LF like spaces when determining sentence boundaries; this is now the default.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Add term_counts() min and max options for excluding terms with counts below or above specified limits.

  • Add term_counts() limit option to limit the number of reported terms.

  • Add term_counts() types option for reporting the types that make up a term.

  • Add abbreviations() function with abbreviation lists for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian (from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository).

  • Add more refined control over token_filter() drop cateogries: merged "kana", and "ideo" into "letter"; split off "punct", "mark", and "other" from "symbol".

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Rename text_filter() to token_filter().

  • Remove select argument from token_filter(), but add select to term_matrix() arguments.

  • Replace sentences() function with text_split(), which has options for breaking into multi-sentence blocks or multi-token blocks.

  • Remove remove_control, map_dash, and remove_space type normalization options from text_filter().

  • Remove ignore_empty token filter option.

corpus 0.5.1 (2017-05-25) 2017-05-25

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

BUG FIXES

  • Fix bug in read_ndjson() for reading factors with missing values.

corpus 0.5.0 (2017-05-23) 2017-05-23

NEW FEATURES

  • Add term_counts() function to tabulate term frequencies.

  • Add term_matrix() function to compute a term frequency matrix.

  • Add text_filter() option (stem_except) to exempt specific terms from stemming.

  • Add text_filter() option (drop) to drop specific terms, along with option (drop_except) to exempt specific terms from dropping.

  • Add text_filter() option (combine) to combine multi-word phrases like “new york city” into a single term.

  • Add text_filter() option (select) to select specific terms (excluding all words that are not on this list).

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Add stopwords() function.

  • Make read_ndjson() decode JSON strings as character or factor (according to whether stringsAsFactors is TRUE) except for fields named "text", which get decoded as text objects.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Rename text_filter() options fold_case, fold_dash, fold_quote to map_case, map_dash, map_quote.

corpus 0.4.0 (2017-05-16) 2017-05-16

NEW FEATURES

  • Allow read_ndjson() to read from connections, not just files, by reading the file contents into memory first. Use this by default instead of memory mapping.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • Add text_filter() options drop_symbol, drop_number, drop_letter, drop_kana, and drop_ideo; these options replace the matched tokens with NA.

BUG FIXES

  • Fix internal function namespace clashes on Linux and other similar platforms.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

corpus 0.3.0 (2017-05-04) 2017-05-04

NEW FEATURES

  • Support for serializing dataset and text objects via readRDS() and other native routines. Unfortunately, this support doesn’t come for free, and the objects take a little bit more memory.

  • Add support for stemming via the Snowball library.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

  • More convenient interface for accessing JSON arrays.

  • Make read_ndjson() return a data frame by default, not a "jsondata" object.

DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

  • Rename as.text()/is.text() to as_text()/is_text(); make as_text() retain names, work on S3 objects.

  • Rename read_json() to read_ndjson() to not clash with jsonlite.

  • Rename "dataset" type to "jsondata".

corpus 0.2.0 (2017-04-15) Unreleased

NEW FEATURES

  • First CRAN release.

  • Added Windows support.

  • Added support for setting names on text objects.

  • Added documentation.

corpus 0.1.0 (2017-04-11) Unreleased

NEW FEATURES

  • First milestone, with support for JSON decoding, text segmentation, and text normalization.