read_txt: Read a text file into a character vector

In wai-wong-reimagine/mclm: Mastering Corpus Linguistics Methods

Description

Reads a text file and returns a character vector containing the lines in the text file (in such a way that the lines in the text file are the items in the character vector).

Usage

read_txt(file,
         file_encoding = "UTF-8",
         paste_char = NA,
         ...)

Arguments

file	name of the input file
file_encoding	the encoding used in the input file.
paste_char	if paste.char is NA, then the output is a character vector in which each input line is a separate item. If paste_char is a character vector, e.g. "\n", then the output is a character vector of length one, in which all input lines are concatenated, using the value of paste_char[1] as line separator and as end-of-last-line marker.
...	not used in the current implementation of read_txt.

Value

The function read_txt returns a character vector.

See Also

See also write_txt.

Examples

# create a small text
x <- "This is
a small
text."

# write the text to a text file
write_txt(x, "example-text-file.txt")

# read a text from file
y <- read_txt("example-text-file.txt")
y

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