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Count words, sentences, characters

Source: R/wordcount.R
word-counting.Rd

Count words, sentences, and characters in input texts. These functions use the stringi package, so they handle the counting of Unicode strings (e.g., characters with diacritical marks) in a way that makes sense to people counting characters.

Usage

count_words(x)

count_characters(x)

count_sentences(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector or a list of character vectors. If x is a character vector, it can be of any length, and each element will be tokenized separately. If x is a list of character vectors, each element of the list should have a length of 1.

Value

An integer vector containing the counted elements. If the input vector or list has names, they will be preserved.

Examples

count_words(mobydick)
#> mobydick 
#>   219415 
count_sentences(mobydick)
#> mobydick 
#>    29076 
count_characters(mobydick)
#> mobydick 
#>  1235185