read.transcription: Read transcription from a tsv file.

In soundcorrs: Semi-Automatic Analysis of Sound Correspondences

Description

Read a table from file and create a transcription object out of it.

Usage

read.transcription(
  file,
  col.grapheme = "GRAPHEME",
  col.meta = "META",
  col.value = "VALUE"
)

Arguments

file	[character] Path to the data file.
col.grapheme	[character] Name of the column with graphemes. Defaults to "GRAPHEME".
col.meta	[character] Name of the column with the coverage of metacharacters. If empty string or NA, the column will be generated automatically. Defaults to "META".
col.value	[character] Name of the column with values of graphemes. Defaults to "VALUE".

Details

The constructor for the transcription class requires a data frame which means that the user would need to first read it from a file, and only then pass it to the constructor. This function saves this one step. In addition, it attaches the name of the file to the object, which allows for easier identification later. It is recommended to use read.transcription instead of the raw transcription constructor whenever possible.

Value

[transcription] A transcription object containing the read transcription.

See Also

transcription

Examples

# path to a sample transcription
fName <- system.file ("extdata", "trans-common.tsv", package="soundcorrs")
read.transcription (fName)

soundcorrs documentation built on Nov. 16, 2020, 5:09 p.m.