Understanding quanteda

What is quanteda?

The quanteda package is similar to the tm package in that both are frameworks for natural language processing. The quanteda package provides a larger set of tools and has greater capabilities, but requires a deeper understanding of NLP. The quanteda package is an R package for quantitative text analysis that provides a suite of tools for text preprocessing, document-feature matrix construction, text visualization, and statistical analysis of text data. It’s designed to be efficient for handling large corpora of text data, and provides a flexible framework for researchers to explore and analyze text data for a wide range of research questions. The quanteda package also supports various text analysis techniques, including topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and network analysis.