README.md

In mikaelpoul/atekstR: Parse and import articles bundled in .txt-files downloaded from ATEKST

atekstR

This R-package provides functions for extracting articles (with metadata) from .txt-files downloaded from ATEKST and import them into R. They return a data frame with the headline, paper, date and time of publication, mode (net vs print), url and text of each news article. The package includes two functions (see the documentation):

• read.atekst() Import articles from a single .txt-file.
• read.atekst.dir() Import articles from all .txt-files in a directory (including subfolders).

Installation

You need the devtools package in order to install atekstR. You can install it using the follow code (note that you only need to run this once):

if(!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")

You can then load devtools and install atekstR by running:

library(devtools)
install_github("mikaelpoul/atekstR", dependencies = TRUE)

Contact

If you have any problems or suggestions, feel free to open an issue or send me an email. I welcome corrections, suggestions or questions large or small.

mikaelpoul/atekstR documentation built on May 22, 2019, 10:51 p.m.