derwent_extract: Extract sections of Derwent patent full texts to columns

In poldham/oldhammisc: Miscellaneous functions, mainly for tidying and wrangling data

Description

Given a data frame containing the full texts of patent texts, this function provides options to split the texts into number, title, abstract, description or claims. Options are also provided to just break out the title abstract or claims ("tac") or all fields.

Usage

derwent_extract(x, col, section, remove = TRUE)

Arguments

x	a data.frame
col	A column in x
section	either number, title, abstract, description, or claims or "tac" or "al;l"
remove	Whether to remove the input column. Default is true.

Value

A data.frame with new columns

Examples

## Not run: derwent_extract(five_texts, "tac")
derwent_extract(five_texts, "all")
## End(Not run)

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