R count times word appears in element of list

Question

I have a list comprised of words.

> head(splitWords2)
[[1]]
 [1] \"Some\"        \"additional\"  \"information\" \"that\"        \"we\"          \"would\"         


        

Answer 1

Something like this:

wordlist <- list(
    c("the","and","it"),
    c("we","and","it")
)
require(plyr); require(stringr)
> ldply(wordlist, function(x) str_count(x, "we"))
  V1 V2 V3
1  0  0  0
2  1  0  0