find_candidate {acroname}

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Find candidate

Description

This is an unexported helper for acronym. The function is used wrapped in a tryCatch() that uses withTimeout to manage maximum wait time for the candidate acronym search.

Usage

find_candidate(collapsed, acronym_length, probs, dictionary, words_len)

Arguments

collapsed	The collapsed string of characters generated by mince
acronym_length	Number of characters in acronym; default is 3
probs	Vector of probabilities for selecting each character while generating candidate
dictionary	Character vector containing dictionary of terms from which acronym should be created; default is NULL and hunspell "en_us" dictionary will be used
words_len	Vector of the length of each word in the input

Value

Named list with three elements:

• formatted: The candidate acronym and string with letters used capitalized

• prefix: The candidate acronym

• suffix: Words used with letters in acronym capitalized #'

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