deleteLexicon: Delete a previously loaded lexicon.

In nzilbb.labbcat: Accessing Data Stored in 'LaBB-CAT' Instances

Delete a previously loaded lexicon.

Description

By default LaBB-CAT includes a layer manager called the Flat Lexicon Tagger, which can be configured to annotate words with data from a dictionary loaded from a plain text file (e.g. a CSV file).

Usage

deleteLexicon(labbcat.url, lexicon)

Arguments

labbcat.url	URL to the LaBB-CAT instance.
lexicon	The name of the lexicon to delete, e.g. 'cmudict'

Details

This function deletes such a lexicon, which was previously added using loadLexicon.

You must have editing privileges in LaBB-CAT in order to be able to use this function.

Value

NULL if the deletion was successful, or an error message if not.

See Also

loadLexicon

Examples

## Not run: 
## Delete the previously loaded CMU Pronouncing Dictionary lexicon
deleteLexicon(labbcat.url, "cmudict")

## End(Not run)

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