Adding custom stopwords in R tm

Question

I have a Corpus in R using the tm package. I am applying the removeWords function to remove stopwords

tm_map(abs, removeWords, stop         


        

Answer 1

Save your custom stop words in a csv file (ex: word.csv).

library(tm)
stopwords <- read.csv("word.csv", header = FALSE)
stopwords <- as.character(stopwords$V1)
stopwords <- c(stopwords, stopwords())

Then you can apply custom words to your text file.

text <- VectorSource(text)
text <- VCorpus(text)
text <- tm_map(text, content_transformer(tolower))
text <- tm_map(text, removeWords, stopwords)
text <- tm_map(text, stripWhitespace)

text[[1]]$content