extract: extract

In sigbertklinke/extpro: Extract text from file(s) and process it

Description

Extracts parts from the file(s) based on their extension, writes them to disk and process further based on th eoptions given. extract uses extract.XXX to extract the parts from a file based on the file extension XXX. option.YYY is used to process the file written to disk further.

Usage

extract(files, quiet = FALSE, write = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

files	character: a vector with file name(s)
quiet	logical: should be info messages suppressed? (default: FALSE)
write	logical: should be written to disk? (default: TRUE)
...	named parameters: the parameter .XXX should contain a regular expression to extract

Details

Currently are supported:

extract.tex

extraction from tex files

option.R

further processing of R files

You may provide further extract.XXX or option.YYY functions.

Value

invisibly a list of files written to disk

Examples

file  <- system.file("example.tex", package="extpro")
# use a temporary directory
dir <- setwd(tempdir(TRUE))
file.copy(file, "example.tex")
#
extract("example.tex")
# show results
list.files()
tools::texi2pdf("example.tex")
# if Linux (Ubuntu):  system('evince "example.pdf"')
# if Mac OS:          system('open "example.pdf"')
# if Windows:         system('start "example.pdf"')
setwd(dir)

sigbertklinke/extpro documentation built on Dec. 31, 2020, 7:26 a.m.