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Reduce max. number of words in a text string, keeping only first
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| # Function to reduce the max. number of words in a string | |
| maxwords <- function(x, max = 10){ | |
| lwords <- length(x) | |
| if(lwords > max) lwords <- max | |
| paste0(x[1:lwords], collapse = " ") | |
| } | |
| # Apply maxwords to the data | |
| tdft$text <- sapply(words, maxwords) |
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