RmecabKo {RmecabKo}

Rcpp Wrapper for Eunjeon Project

Description

The mecab-ko and mecab-ko-dic is based on a C++ library, and POS tagging with them is useful when the spacing of source text is not correct. For integrating mecab-ko with R, Rcpp package is used for providing the basic framework.

Details

It is based on the Eunjeon Project. For Mac OSX and Linux, You need to install mecab-ko and mecab-ko-dic before install this package in R. mecab-ko: https://bitbucket.org/eunjeon/mecab-ko mecab-ko-dic: https://bitbucket.org/eunjeon/mecab-ko-dic In Windows, install_mecab(mecabLocation) function will install mecab-ko-msvc and mecab-ko-dic-msvc in user specified directory. It is operated by system command and file I/O, the speed of the analysis is slow compared to the Linux-based operating system.

Author(s)

Junhewk Kim

References

• Eunjeon project

• Wonsup Yoon, mecab-ko VC++ builds at https://github.com/Pusnow/mecab-ko-msvc, https://github.com/Pusnow/mecab-ko-dic-msvc

Examples

## Not run: 
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("junhewk/RmecabKo")
# On Windows platform only
install_mecab("D:/Rlibs/mecab")

phrase <- # Some Korean character vectors

# For full POS tagging
pos(phrase)
# For noun extraction only
nouns(phrase)
# For tokenizing of selective morphemes
tokens_words(phrase)
# For n-grams tokenizing
tokens_ngram(phrase)

## End(Not run)