loadtext: load a text file

In fdm2id: Data Mining and R Programming for Beginners

load a text file

Description

(Down)Load a text file (and extract it if it is in a zip file).

Usage

loadtext(
  file = file.choose(),
  dir = "~/",
  collapse = TRUE,
  sep = NULL,
  categories = NULL
)

Arguments

file	The path or URL of the text file.
dir	The (temporary) directory, where the file is downloaded. The file is deleted at the end of this function.
collapse	Indicates whether or not lines of each documents should collapse together or not.
sep	Separator between text fields.
categories	Columns that should be considered as categorial data.

Value

The text contained in the dowloaded file.

See Also

download.file, unzip

Examples

## Not run: 
text = loadtext ("http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text8.zip")

## End(Not run)

fdm2id documentation built on July 9, 2023, 6:05 p.m.