read.file: Read character vector from file
In dimalik/EntropyEstimator: Implements LZ estimator for texts

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

read.file reads a file word by word and returns a unicode character vector.

1	read.file(text.file, max.length = -1, lower = FALSE, bow = FALSE, ...)

`text.file`	A character vector. The path to the text file
`max.length`	A numeric. The maximum length of space delimited units to be read (defaults to the entire file).
`lower`	Boolean. Whether or not to lowercase all words.
`bow`	Boolean. Whether or not to substitute each word with an ID tag (useful for non-ASCII texts)
`...`	arguments to be passed to `scan`.

The read.file helper function reads a character vector from a file up to max.length calling PreprocessText if nececssary to carry out any preprocessing steps.

scan, PreprocessText

## initialize a temp buffer
tmp.file <- file()
cat("this is a very nice and short sentence", file = tmp.file)
text <- read.file(tmp.file, max.length = 1000, lower = TRUE, bow = TRUE)
close(tmp.file)