repeatSub: Repeat table subheadings

In cstubben/pmcXML: Tools to parse full text XML documents from PMC Open Access

Description

Repeat table subheadings down a new column

Usage

repeatSub(x, column = "subheading", first = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	a data.frame with subheadings
column	column name
first	add subheader as first column
...	other options passed to fixTypes

Details

Identifies subheadings in a data frame by checking for rows with a non-empty first column and all other columns empty. Removes subheader rows and repeats values down a new column.

Value

A data frame

Author(s)

Chris Stubben

Examples

## Not run: 
doc <- pmcOAI("PMC2231364" )
t1<-pmcTable(doc, 1)
head(t1, 10)
t1<-repeatSub(t1)
head(t1,10)
table2(t1$sub)

## End(Not run)

cstubben/pmcXML documentation built on May 14, 2019, 12:25 p.m.