read_doc: Read in .doc Content

In textreadr: Read Text Documents into R

Description

Read in the content from a .doc file using antiword via the antiword package.

Usage

read_doc(file, skip = 0, remove.empty = TRUE, trim = TRUE, format = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file	The path to the .doc file.
skip	The number of lines to skip.
remove.empty	logical. If TRUE empty elements in the vector are removed.
trim	logical. If TRUE the leading/training white space is removed.
format	logical. If TRUE the output will keep doc formatting (e.g., bold, italics, underlined). This corresponds to the -f flag in antiword.
...	ignored.

Value

Returns a character vector.

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- system.file("docs/Yasmine_Interview_Transcript.doc",
    package = "textreadr")
read_doc(x)

## End(Not run)

textreadr documentation built on Oct. 9, 2021, 5:06 p.m.