In this tutorial I will show you how to classify text with SVM in R.
The main steps to classify text in R are:
- Create a new RStudio project
- Install the required packages
- Read the data
- Prepare the data
- Create and train the SVM model
- Predict with new data
Step 1: Create a new RStudio Project
To begin with, you will need to download and install the RStudio development environment.
Once you installed it, you can create a new project by clicking on "Project: (None)" at the top right of the screen :

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