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Using 'ignore' argument in hunspell function

I'm attempting to exclude some words when running hunspell_check on a text block in Rstudio.

ignore_me <- c("Daniel")

hunspell_check(unlist(some_text), ignore = ignore_me, dict = dictionary("en_GB"))

However, whenever I run I get the following error:

Error in hunspell_check(unlist(some_text, dict = dictionary("en_GB"), : 
  unused argument (ignore = ignore_me))

I've had a look around SO and trawled the documenation but am struggling to figure what's gone wrong.

Solution

  • It looks like you’ve missed a closing bracket after some_text, so it’s passinng ignore as an argument to unlist() rather than hunspell_check().

    UPDATE: Ok, I think you were looking at an old version of the documentation. At least that's what I did at first (https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/hunspell/versions/1.1/topics/hunspell_check). In the current version, 2.9, ignore is no longer an argument for hunspell_check(). Instead, use add_words in the call to dictionary():

    library(hunspell)

some_text <- list("hello", "there", "Daniell")
hunspell_check(unlist(some_text), dict = dictionary("en_GB"))
# [1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE

ignore_me <- "Daniell"
hunspell_check(unlist(some_text), dict = dictionary("en_GB", add_words = ignore_me))
# [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE