High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R

A spell checker and morphological analyzer library designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. The package can check and analyze individual words as well as search for incorrect words within a text, latex, html or xml document. Use the 'devtools' package to spell check R documentation with 'hunspell'.

High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R

languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. The package can check and analyze individual words as well as search for incorrect words within a text, latex, html or xml document. Use the 'devtools' package to spell check R documentation with 'hunspell'.

Installation

This package includes a bundled version of libhunspell and no longer depends on external system libraries:

install.packages("hunspell")

Documentation

About the R package:

• Blog post: Hunspell: Spell Checker and Text Parser for R
• Blog post: Stemming and Spell Checking in R

Hello World

# Check individual words
words <- c("beer", "wiskey", "wine")
correct <- hunspell_check(words)
print(correct)
 
# Find suggestions for incorrect words
hunspell_suggest(words[!correct])
 
# Extract incorrect from a piece of text
bad <- hunspell("spell checkers are not neccessairy for langauge ninja's")
print(bad[[1]])
hunspell_suggest(bad[[1]])
 
# Stemming
words <- c("love", "loving", "lovingly", "loved", "lover", "lovely", "love")
hunspell_stem(words)
hunspell_analyze(words)

The devtools package uses this package to spell R package documentation:

# Spell check a package
library(devtools)
spell_check("~/mypackage")