Standardize document titles — standardize

Useful especially for visualizations. standardize_titles applies some English-language conventions, including converting underscores to spaces, capitalizing important words, removing leading articles, and dropping subtitles.

Usage

standardize_titles(data, title = doc_id, drop_articles = FALSE)

Arguments

data: A tidy data frame, potentially containing a title column called "doc_id". Alternatively, a simple character vector of titles.
title: A column containing the titles to be standardized
drop_articles: Whether to remove opening articles like "The" and "A"

Value

A data frame with one column adjusted. If data is a character vector instead of a data frame, then a character vector is returned.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
dubliners <- get_gutenberg_corpus(2814) |>
  load_texts() |>
  identify_by(part)

##### Standardizing strings #####
# Before `standardize_titles()`
unique(dubliners$doc_id)

# After `standardize_titles()`
unique(dubliners$doc_id) |>
  standardize_titles()

##### Standardizing a data frame #####

dubliners_measured <- dubliners |>
  add_vocabulary()

# Before `standardize_titles()`
dubliners_measured |>
  plot_vocabulary(labeling = "inline")

# After `standardize_titles()`
dubliners_measured |>
  standardize_titles() |>
  plot_vocabulary(labeling = "inline")
} # }