Hi Kelvin, I'm new to R and tm myself, however here is a way that you can sort your corpus. Please keep in mind that there may be a more efficient approach -- but this will get the job done.
Basically, there are three steps (in pseudo code): 1. Extract the meta data for Age into a list 2. Sort the list by Age 3. Create a new corpus by copying entries from the old corpus in age order Your actual code would look something like this: agelist <- lapply(mycorpus, meta, tag = "Age") agedf <- data.frame(age=as.character(agelist)) agelistorder <- order(agedf$age) mysortedcorpus <- mycorpus[agelistorder,] IHTH, Shad Thomas www.glassboxresearch.com Kelvin Lam wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wonder if there's any way to reshuffle the text collection by the > document meta values. For instance, if I have 5 documents that correspond > to the following meta data: > > MetaID Sex Age > 0 M 38 > 0 M 46 > 0 F 24 > 0 F 49 > 0 F 33 > > Can I reorder the text documents based on the ascending order of age? > Thank you very much!! > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sorting-text-docs-based-on-document-meta-values-in-tm%28%29-tp24907478p24928239.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
