Rstem Package

Rstem_0.4-1.tar.gz

Package document

The Rstem package provides R language bindings to the word stemming facilities provided by Martin Porter's Snowball. The package provides a simple way to compute the stems of each word in a character vector via the the function wordStem(). This is important in text analysis such as documents and email.

The package provides stemming for different languages. One can query the supported languages via the function getStemLanguages(). Note that certain languages require UTF support.

The package is extensible in two ways.

S-Plus

The package currently is written for R. However, it is relatively straightforward to transform it to work with S-Plus (5.0 or greater).
Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
Last modified: Thu Aug 18 17:02:00 PDT 2011