R help - Nov 2009 - Can't pass file name as parameter to Corpus function

I'm working on a small project to extract high-frequency terms from a
document and then display those terms in web page. To this end, I've to pass
the file name as parameter to the Corpus function to build a corpus of only
one document. I can build the corpus using the code below interactively in
R. But calling the function with a file name as the parameter I got the
error message saying "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object
'strFileName' not found"

test<-function(strFileName) {
	src <- URISource(strFileName)
	cor <- Corpus(src, readerControl = list(reader = readPDF, language
"en_US", load = TRUE))
}

After running the following code in R I checked the docURISource$URI and the
value is "strFileName" rather than "C:\\Temp\\readme.txt". I
also checked
the URI when I was debugging the function and the URI is also 
"strFileName"
rather than "C:\\Temp\\readme.txt". 

strFileName <- "C:\\Temp\\readme.txt"
docURISource = URISource(strFileName, encoding = "UTF_8")
docCorpus = Corpus(docURISource)

So it seems when running interactively the URI contains strFileName as a
variable but when called as a function, the URI contains strFileName as the
actual value. Can anybody point out what's the problem?

thanks in advance!!

Jianli
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The function Corpus seems to be in some contributed package. If you 
think you found a bug in a contributed package, please contact the 
package maintainer.

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Uwe Ligges





renjl0810 wrote:
> I'm working on a small project to extract high-frequency terms from a
> document and then display those terms in web page. To this end, I've to
pass
> the file name as parameter to the Corpus function to build a corpus of only
> one document. I can build the corpus using the code below interactively in
> R. But calling the function with a file name as the parameter I got the
> error message saying "Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object
> 'strFileName' not found"
> 
> test<-function(strFileName) {
> 	src <- URISource(strFileName)
> 	cor <- Corpus(src, readerControl = list(reader = readPDF, language >
"en_US", load = TRUE))
> }
> 
> After running the following code in R I checked the docURISource$URI and
the
> value is "strFileName" rather than
"C:\\Temp\\readme.txt". I also checked
> the URI when I was debugging the function and the URI is also 
"strFileName"
> rather than "C:\\Temp\\readme.txt". 
> 
> strFileName <- "C:\\Temp\\readme.txt"
> docURISource = URISource(strFileName, encoding = "UTF_8")
> docCorpus = Corpus(docURISource)
> 
> So it seems when running interactively the URI contains strFileName as a
> variable but when called as a function, the URI contains strFileName as the
> actual value. Can anybody point out what's the problem?
> 
> thanks in advance!!
> 
> Jianli