Converts a Vector of Words to Numeric Values Based on Letter Positions

Uses the numeric position of the letters in a word to create a numeric value for a word.

word_value(words, dtOut = FALSE)

Arguments

words	The input vector of words.
dtOut	Logical. Should the output be a data.table comprising the words and the values. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A named numeric vector or a data.table.

Details

The function converts the input to lowercase, removes anything that is not between the letters "a" and "z", and transliterates accented characters to their ASCII equivalent before converting the word to a numeric value.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/q/36097446/1270695

Author

Ananda Mahto and Jota.

Examples

myvec <- c("and", "dad", "cat", "fox", "mom", 
           "add", "dan", "naive", "non-descript")
word_value(myvec)
#>         and         dad         cat         fox         mom         add 
#>          19           9          24          45          41           9 
#>         dan       naive nondescript 
#>          19          51         137 
word_value(myvec, TRUE)
#>           word value
#> 1:         and    19
#> 2:         dad     9
#> 3:         cat    24
#> 4:         fox    45
#> 5:         mom    41
#> 6:         add     9
#> 7:         dan    19
#> 8:       naive    51
#> 9: nondescript   137