Counting Words in a String in R

Steven Sanderson counts the ways:

Counting words in a string is a common task in data manipulation and text analysis. Whether you’re parsing tweets, analyzing survey responses, or processing any textual data, knowing how to count words is crucial. In this post, we’ll explore three ways to achieve this in R: using base R’s strsplit(), the stringr package, and the stringi package. We’ll provide clear examples and explanations to help you get started.

I, of course, would commission a 128-node Hadoop cluster and write a few dozen pages of Java code to get the answer.