read_vrt: Read and write VRT or WPL files

In alex-raw/cwbwrapr: A Selection of Convenience Tools to Call CWB and CQP Commands from R

Read and write VRT or WPL files

Description

Import VRT (verticalized text) or WLP (word per line) files

Usage

read_vrt(file, no_xml = FALSE)

read_wpl(file, no_xml = FALSE)

write_vrt(file)

write_wpl(file)

Arguments

.x	character. path to file or connection, see scan()
header	logical. whether or not the first line should be used as column names. Note: names in cols take precedence.
cols	list. a list with column types (e.g. 0, for numeric, "" for character), if named, the names will be used as column/vector names. By default, column 1 is expected to contain integer frequencies and column 2 strings with types
sep	character. see scan
comment.char	character. off by default. replace if necessary
quote	character. see scan
na.strings	character. see scan
nlines	integer. number of lines in file, see nlines in scan()
...	further arguments to be passed to scan

Details

These formats are used by common corpus indexing software, like CWB (.vrt) and Sketchengine (.wpl). These functions are convenience wrappers with to read from and create such file formats.

Value

data.frame

See Also

read.table()

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