This function processes a given text string by converting it to lowercase, removing numbers,
non-alphanumeric characters, extra whitespace, and stopwords based on a specified language.
It also transliterates text to ASCII, splits words, and reconstructs a clean text string suitable for analysis.
Usage
prepare_text(text, stopwords = NULL)
Arguments
- text
A character vector or object that can be coerced to a character string. Represents the input text to be cleaned.
- stopwords
A character vector specifying stopwords removal. Defaults to "spanish" stopwords from the tm:stopwords package.
Value
A cleaned character string, with stopwords removed and text formatted for analysis.
Examples
# Example usage:
prepare_text("¡Hola! Esto es una prueba 123.")
#> [1] "hola prueba"