post2df: Extract information from PTT posts
In liao961120/pttR: Retrieve and Process Textual Data from PTT

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

post2df takes paths to PTT posts (either URLs or local path to HTML files) as input, extracts information from the posts, and returns a data frame with n row and 12 cols with one post per row.

1	post2df(path, board_col = FALSE)

`path`	Character Vector. A vector of URLs or local paths to PTT posts.
`board_col`	Logical. Whether to set board name as a new variable. Defaults to `FALSE`.

This is a function that rbinds the data gathered from get_post, and add some meta data about the 'content' of the post.

A data frame with n rows and 12 variables:

author: Author of the post.
category: Category of the post, such as "xin wen", "wen gua", "Re:".
title: Title of the post.
date: The date of the post.
content: The content of the post.
content_char: The Number of characters in the post content. Whitespaces and newline characters are removed before counting.
n_comment: Number of comments.
n_push: Number of "Push" comments.
n_boo: Number of "Boo" comments.
link: URL of the post with https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/ removed. For local file paths, the link is the file name.
comment: A list-column with data frames stored inside. Contents extracted from the post comment region. See get_post_comment for information about the variables in the data frame.
comment_urls: A list-column with character vectors stored inside. URLs extracted from post content are stored inside the character vectors. The original URLs in the post content are replaced as 'rm_URL' in the variable 'content'.

One additional variable is optional:

board: The board the post belongs to. Exist only if board_col = TRUE.

url <- "https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1534415307.A.BE5.html"

post_df <- post2df(url)
head(post_df)

# Access information in the list column: 'comment'
head(post_df$comment[[1]])

## Not run: 
# Read from local files
post_df <- post2df(list.files('local/gossiping', full.names = T))

## End(Not run)