21.10 Conversion to Lower Case

docs <- tm_map(docs, content_transformer(tolower))

General character processing functions in R can be used to transform our corpus. A common requirement is to map the documents to lower case, using base::tolower(). As above, we need to wrap such functions with a tm::content_transformer():



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