tabularize_md: Make a Markdown File into a Table

In supportR: Support Functions for Wrangling and Visualization

Make a Markdown File into a Table

Description

Accepts one markdown file (i.e., "md" file extension) and returns its content as a table. Nested heading structure in markdown file–as defined by hashtags / pounds signs (#)–is identified and preserved as columns in the resulting tabular format. Each line of non-heading content in the file is preserved in the right-most column of one row of the table.

Usage

tabularize_md(file = NULL)

Arguments

file	(character/url connection) name and file path of markdown file to transform into a table or a connection object to a URL of a markdown file (see ?base::url for more details)

Value

(dataframe) table with one additional column than there are heading levels in the document (e.g., if first and second level headings are in the document, the resulting table will have three columns) and one row per line of non-heading content in the markdown file.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Identify URL to the NEWS.md file in `supportR` GitHub repo
md_cxn <- url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/njlyon0/supportR/main/NEWS.md")

# Transform it into a table
md_df <- tabularize_md(file = md_cxn)

# Close connection (just good housekeeping to do so)
close(md_cxn)

# Check out the table format
str(md_df)

## End(Not run)

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