import_corpus: import_corpus

In R.temis: Integrated Text Mining Solution

Description

Import a corpus from a file.

Usage

import_corpus(paths, format, language, textcolumn = 1, encoding = NULL)

Arguments

paths	Path to one of more files, or to a directory (if format="txt") to import.
format	File format: can be "csv", "txt", "factiva", "europresse", "lexisnexis" or "alceste".
language	The language name or code (preferably as IETF language tags, see language) to be used in particular for stopwords and stemming.
textcolumn	When format="csv", the column containing the text, either as a string or as a position
encoding	The character encoding of the file, or NULL to attempt automatic detection.

Value

A Corpus object.

Examples

file <- system.file("texts", "reut21578-factiva.xml", package="tm.plugin.factiva")
import_corpus(file, "factiva", language="en")

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