[R] help loading files into R for koRpus analysis

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 02/11/2020 4:46 p.m., Gordon Ballingrud wrote:
> Thanks; that's a good point. Here is what I have been working with:
> 
> library(quanteda)
> library(readtext)
> 
> texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/", "/word/*.docx"))

On Windows, you can't have an empty entry in a pathname, so you should 
leave off one of the slashes:

   texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/", 
"word/*.docx"))

You could skip the paste0 entirely, and use

   texts <- readtext("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/word/*.docx")

but I'm assuming this is just an example of a more complex situation.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> And the error message:
> Error in list_files(file, ignore_missing, TRUE, verbosity) :
>    File '' does not exist.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:15 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com 
> <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You may get a helpful response, but if not, I'd suggest posting code
>     you
>     have to read one file.  Then lots of people could likely show you
>     how to
>     modify it to read all 4000 files.
> 
>     Duncan Murdoch
> 
>     On 02/11/2020 12:28 p.m., Gordon Ballingrud wrote:
>      > Hello all,
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > I need some help with loading text-file data into R for analysis with
>      > packages like koRpus.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > The problem I am facing is getting R to recognize a folder full
>     of Word
>      > files (about 4,000) as data which I can then make koRpus perform
>     analyses
>      > like Coleman-Liau indexing. If at all possible, I prefer to make
>     this work
>      > with Word files. The key problem is the struggle to cause R to
>     recognize
>      > the text (Word) files in bulk (that is, all at the same time) so that
>      > koRpus can do its thing with those files.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > My attempts to make this work have all been in vain, but I know that
>      > packages like koRpus would be limited in usefulness if there were
>     no way to
>      > get the package to do its work on a large collection of files all
>     at once.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > I hope this problem will make sense to someone, and that there is
>     a tenable
>      > solution to it.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      >
>      > Gordon
>      >
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