Finding 2 & 3 word Phrases Using R TM Package

Question

I am trying to find a code that actually works to find the most frequently used two and three word phrases in R text mining package (maybe there is another package for it th

Answer 1

Try this code.

library(tm)
library(SnowballC)
library(class)
library(wordcloud)

keywords <- read.csv(file.choose(), header = TRUE, na.strings=c("NA","-","?"))
keywords_doc <- Corpus(VectorSource(keywords$"use your column that you need"))
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, removeNumbers)
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, tolower)
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, stripWhitespace)
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, removePunctuation)
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, PlainTextDocument)
keywords_doc <- tm_map(keywords_doc, stemDocument)

This is the bigrams or tri grams section that you could use

BigramTokenizer <-  function(x)
unlist(lapply(ngrams(words(x), 2), paste, collapse = " "), use.names = FALSE)
# creating of document matrix
keywords_matrix <- TermDocumentMatrix(keywords_doc, control = list(tokenize = BigramTokenizer))

# remove sparse terms 
keywords_naremoval <- removeSparseTerms(keywords_matrix, 0.95)

# Frequency of the words appearing
keyword.freq <- rowSums(as.matrix(keywords_naremoval))
subsetkeyword.freq <-subset(keyword.freq, keyword.freq >=20)
frequentKeywordSubsetDF <- data.frame(term = names(subsetkeyword.freq), freq = subsetkeyword.freq) 

# Sorting of the words
frequentKeywordDF <- data.frame(term = names(keyword.freq), freq = keyword.freq)
frequentKeywordSubsetDF <- frequentKeywordSubsetDF[with(frequentKeywordSubsetDF, order(-frequentKeywordSubsetDF$freq)), ]
frequentKeywordDF <- frequentKeywordDF[with(frequentKeywordDF, order(-frequentKeywordDF$freq)), ]

# Printing of the words
wordcloud(frequentKeywordDF$term, freq=frequentKeywordDF$freq, random.order = FALSE, rot.per=0.35, scale=c(5,0.5), min.freq = 30, colors = brewer.pal(8,"Dark2"))

Hope this helps. This is an entire code that you could use.