Coercion functions to and from corpus objects, including conversion to a plain character object; and checks for whether an object is a corpus.
# S3 method for corpus as.character(x, use.names = TRUE, ...) is.corpus(x) as.corpus(x)
| x | object to be coerced or checked |
|---|---|
| use.names | logical; preserve (document) names if |
| ... | additional arguments used by specific methods |
as.character() returns the corpus as a plain character vector, with
or without named elements.
is.corpus returns TRUE if the object is a corpus.
as.corpus() upgrades a corpus object to the newest format.
object.
as.character(x) where x is a corpus is equivalent to
calling the deprecated texts(x).