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July 1, 2013 16:30
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Count the number of words in a string. (Via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8920145/count-the-number-of-words-in-a-string-in-r)
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| wordcount <- function(str) { | |
| sapply(gregexpr("\\b\\W+\\b", str, perl=TRUE), function(x) sum(x>0) ) + 1 | |
| } |
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nice function, worked perfect