readTextmeta: Read Corpora as CSV

In tosca: Tools for Statistical Content Analysis

Description

Reads CSV-files and seperates the text and meta data. The result is a textmeta object.

Usage

readTextmeta(
  path,
  file,
  cols,
  dateFormat = "%Y-%m-%d",
  idCol = "id",
  dateCol = "date",
  titleCol = "title",
  textCol = "text",
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  xmlAction = TRUE,
  duplicateAction = TRUE
)

readTextmeta.df(
  df,
  cols = colnames(df),
  dateFormat = "%Y-%m-%d",
  idCol = "id",
  dateCol = "date",
  titleCol = "title",
  textCol = "text",
  xmlAction = TRUE,
  duplicateAction = TRUE
)

Arguments

path	character/data.frame string with path where the data files are OR parameter df for readTextmeta.df
file	character string with names of the CSV files
cols	character vector with columns which should be kept
dateFormat	character string with the date format in the files for as.Date
idCol	character string with column name of the IDs
dateCol	character string with column name of the Dates
titleCol	character string with column name of the Titles
textCol	character string with column name of the Texts
encoding	character string with encoding specification of the files
xmlAction	logical whether all columns of the CSV should be handled with removeXML
duplicateAction	logical whether deleteAndRenameDuplicates should be applied to the created textmeta object
df	data.frame table which should be transformed to a textmeta object

Value

textmeta object

tosca documentation built on Oct. 28, 2021, 5:07 p.m.