Sorts a dfm by descending frequency of total features, total features in documents, or both.
dfm_sort(x, decreasing = TRUE, margin = c("features", "documents", "both"))Document-feature matrix created by dfm()
logical; if TRUE, the sort will be in descending
order, otherwise sort in increasing order
which margin to sort on features to sort by frequency of
features, documents to sort by total feature counts in documents,
and both to sort by both
A sorted dfm matrix object
dfmat <- dfm(tokens(data_corpus_inaugural))
head(dfmat)
#> Document-feature matrix of: 6 documents, 9,437 features (93.83% sparse) and 4 docvars.
#> features
#> docs fellow-citizens of the senate and house representatives :
#> 1789-Washington 1 71 116 1 48 2 2 1
#> 1793-Washington 0 11 13 0 2 0 0 1
#> 1797-Adams 3 140 163 1 130 0 2 0
#> 1801-Jefferson 2 104 130 0 81 0 0 1
#> 1805-Jefferson 0 101 143 0 93 0 0 0
#> 1809-Madison 1 69 104 0 43 0 0 0
#> features
#> docs among vicissitudes
#> 1789-Washington 1 1
#> 1793-Washington 0 0
#> 1797-Adams 4 0
#> 1801-Jefferson 1 0
#> 1805-Jefferson 7 0
#> 1809-Madison 0 0
#> [ reached max_nfeat ... 9,427 more features ]
head(dfm_sort(dfmat))
#> Document-feature matrix of: 6 documents, 9,437 features (93.83% sparse) and 4 docvars.
#> features
#> docs the of , and . to in a our we
#> 1789-Washington 116 71 70 48 23 48 31 14 1 1
#> 1793-Washington 13 11 5 2 4 5 3 0 0 0
#> 1797-Adams 163 140 201 130 33 72 47 51 6 3
#> 1801-Jefferson 130 104 128 81 37 61 24 21 24 10
#> 1805-Jefferson 143 101 142 93 41 83 35 20 24 13
#> 1809-Madison 104 69 47 43 21 61 34 19 9 2
#> [ reached max_nfeat ... 9,427 more features ]
head(dfm_sort(dfmat, decreasing = FALSE, "both"))
#> Document-feature matrix of: 6 documents, 9,437 features (96.33% sparse) and 4 docvars.
#> features
#> docs notification 14th fondest predilection flattering asylum
#> 1793-Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 1945-Roosevelt 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 1865-Lincoln 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 1905-Roosevelt 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 1849-Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 1829-Jackson 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> features
#> docs interruptions awaken distrustful despondence
#> 1793-Washington 0 0 0 0
#> 1945-Roosevelt 0 0 0 0
#> 1865-Lincoln 0 0 0 0
#> 1905-Roosevelt 0 0 0 0
#> 1849-Taylor 0 0 0 0
#> 1829-Jackson 0 0 0 0
#> [ reached max_nfeat ... 9,427 more features ]