Perhaps what you are seeking is a sparse distance matrix.
"How far is each word from every other matching word"
sentence<-"How far is each word from every other matching word"
words<-tolower(unlist(strsplit(sentence," ")))
nwords<-length(words)
wdm<-matrix(NA,nrow=nwords,ncol=nwords)
for(word in
> -Original Message-
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Karl
> Subject: [R] Calculating distance between words in string
>
> .. given a specific keyword, I need to assign labels to the other words
> based on the distance (number of words) to this keyword.
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2015, at 3:28 AM, Karl wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Using R for text processing is quite new to me, while I have found a lot of
> useful functions and I'm beginning to learn regex, I need help with the
> following task. How do I calculate the distance between words?
>
> That is, given a
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