Find the most frequently occuring words in a text in R

Question

Can someone help me with how to find the most frequently used two and three words in a text using R?

My text is...

text <- c(\"Th         


        

Answer 1

We can split the words and use table to summarize the frequency:

words <- strsplit(text, "[ ,.\\(\\)\"]")
sort(table(words, exclude = ""), decreasing = T)