How to R Count Number of Words in a String?

How to R Count Number of Words in a String?

Key points A word count is the number of words in a text or a collection of texts. It can be useful for many purposes, such as measuring the length and complexity of a text by comparing texts from different sources. In R, there are many ways to count words in a dataset, depending on the format and structure of your data. In this article, we  focused on counting words in a character string, a sequence of letters, numbers, symbols, or spaces enclosed by quotation marks.  A character string can represent a word, a sentence, a paragraph, or a document. There are two main steps to count words in a character string using R:  split the character string into individual words  based on criteria, such as spaces, punctuation marks, or  special symbols , and count the number of elements in the resulting vector or list. Different functions and packages in R can help you perform these steps. This article introduced three methods: the base R function strsplit() , the  stringr package  from the tidyverse, and the…