read_lexicon: Read a backslash-coded lexicon file into a tibble

In CoEDL/tidylex: Tidy lexicographical data in backslash-coded formats

Description

Read a backslash-coded lexicon file into a tibble

Usage

read_lexicon(file, col_names = c("line", "data"), remove = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file	either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data
col_names	names for line number and data columns (defaults to "line" and "data")
remove	Whether tidyr::extract should remove the "data" column
...	Further arguments passed to tidyr::extract

Examples

# Demo: Two literal backslash-coded lexemes
read_lexicon("\\lx bonjour\n\\de hello\n\n\\lx au revoir\n\\de goodbye")

# Demo: Extract backslash code and line value from data
read_lexicon("\\lx bonjour\n\\de hello\n\n\\lx au revoir\n\\de goodbye",
             regex = "\\\\([a-z]+)\\s(.*)", into = c("code", "value"))

# More typical usage (where file path to a lexicon is known):
lexicon_file <- system.file("extdata", "mini-french.txt", package = "tidylex")
read_lexicon(file = lexicon_file, regex = "\\\\([a-z]+)\\s(.*)", into = c("code", "value"))

CoEDL/tidylex documentation built on May 7, 2019, 10:50 p.m.