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Text Mining Tools and Methods

This guide provides an overview of text mining and different text mining methods. It also shares several U of I-supported tools and software for researchers at all levels of experience.

What is R?

R is an open-source programming language and command-based application.  This language is a powerful visualization and analysis tool for data. R is primarily used for statistical analysis, so it lends itself well to text mining, particularly using the tm (text mining) package.

R Tutorial

This tutorial by Seth Robins is written as a .R file. You can follow along after you have installed R.