As part of the repository of data science tools I have been building over the past few weeks, I wanted to include some basic NLP / text-mining techniques in R. In thinking of a use case, I decided to kill two birds with one stone: teach myself a new skill, and build a cool gift for my SO! The result (link included below) is pretty basic, but hopefully you'll find it helpful! If you have ever wanted to work with text message data, are intrigued by NLP / text-mining in general, or you're the foremost expert on all things NLP (which I DEFINITELY am not), I hope there's something fun and insightful for all of you here. I look forward to your constructive criticism, and hope you enjoy this and/or any of other material I've assembled:)