read_dir: Read In Multiple Files From a Directory

In trinker/textreadr: Read Text Documents into R

Description

Read in multiple files from a directory and create a base::data.frame().

Usage

read_dir(
  path,
  pattern = NULL,
  doc.col = "document",
  all.files = FALSE,
  recursive = FALSE,
  ignore.case = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

path	Path to the directory.
pattern	An optional regular expression. Only file names which match the regular expression will be returned.
doc.col	A string naming the document columns (i.e., file names sans file extension).
all.files	Logical. If FALSE, only the names of visible files are returned. If TRUE, all file names will be returned.
recursive	Logical. Should the listing recurse into directories?
ignore.case	logical. If TRUE case in the pattern argument will be ignored.
verbose	Logical. Should Each iteration of the read-in be reported.
...	Other arguments passed to read_document functions.

Value

Returns a base::data.frame() with file names as a document column and content as a text column.

Examples

## Not run: 
read_dir(system.file("docs/Maas2011/pos", package = "textreadr"))
read_dir(system.file("docs/Maas2011", package = "textreadr"), recursive=TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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