How to get frequency of word in a sentence in R?

Question

I have one input file which has one paragraph. I need to find the frequency of particular word in that paragraph.

cat file:

Text    Index
train is good   1
let the train come      5
train is best   3
i m great       3
what is best    2

Code:

 input<-read.table("file",sep="\t",header=TRUE)
 paragraph1<-input[1][1]
 word<-"train"

I need to find frequency of word "train" in paragraph1. How can i get it using R?

Answer 1

If you gave a little more info I could probably provide more info in return. Using qdap you could:

library(qdap)

dat <- readLines(n=5)
train is good   1
let the train come      5
train is best   3
i m great       3
what is best    2

dat <- do.call(rbind.data.frame, strsplit(dat, "   +"))

colnames(dat) <- c("Text", "Index")

termco(dat$Text, , " train ")

## > termco(dat$Text, , " train ")
##   all word.count     train
## 1 all         16 3(18.75%)

You could probably do all the paragraphs at once with termco. For more on termco see this link.

Alot of this depends on what's separating paragraphs, how you're reading it in, how things are indented etc.

The poster found the following useful:

length(gregexpr("the", "the dog ate the word the", fixed = TRUE)[[1]])