hunspell tutorial


for v2.6


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 or manual document.

See also these blog posts about hunspell:

Installation

install.packages("hunspell")

Or development version from GitHub

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/hunspell")

library("hunspell")

Check individual words

words <- c("beer", "wiskey", "wine")
correct <- hunspell_check(words)
print(correct)
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE  TRUE

Find suggestions for incorrect words

hunspell_suggest(words[!correct])
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "whiskey"  "whiskery" "whisker"  "wiseacre"

Extract incorrect from a piece of text

bad <- hunspell("spell checkers are not neccessairy for langauge ninja's")
print(bad[[1]])
#> [1] "neccessairy" "langauge"
hunspell_suggest(bad[[1]])
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "necessary"    "necessarily"  "necessaries"  "recessionary"
#> [5] "accessory"    "incarcerate" 
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "language"  "Langeland" "Lagrange"  "Lange"     "gaugeable" "linkage"  
#> [7] "Langland"

Stemming

words <- c("love", "loving", "lovingly", "loved", "lover", "lovely", "love")
hunspell_stem(words)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "love"
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "loving" "love"  
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> [1] "lovingly"
#> 
#> [[4]]
#> [1] "loved" "love" 
#> 
#> [[5]]
#> [1] "lover" "love" 
#> 
#> [[6]]
#> [1] "lovely" "love"  
#> 
#> [[7]]
#> [1] "love"
hunspell_analyze(words)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] " st:love"
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [1] " st:loving"    " st:love fl:G"
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> [1] " st:lovingly"
#> 
#> [[4]]
#> [1] " st:loved"     " st:love fl:D"
#> 
#> [[5]]
#> [1] " st:lover"     " st:love fl:R"
#> 
#> [[6]]
#> [1] " st:lovely"    " st:love fl:Y"
#> 
#> [[7]]
#> [1] " st:love"

Citing

To cite hunspell in publications use:


Jeroen Ooms (2017). hunspell: High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R. R package version 2.6. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=hunspell

License and bugs

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