On 02/11/2020 4:46 p.m., Gordon Ballingrud wrote:> Thanks; that's a good point. Here is what I have been working with:
>
> library(quanteda)
> library(readtext)
>
> texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/",
"/word/*.docx"))
On Windows, you can't have an empty entry in a pathname, so you should
leave off one of the slashes:
texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/",
"word/*.docx"))
You could skip the paste0 entirely, and use
texts <- readtext("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/word/*.docx")
but I'm assuming this is just an example of a more complex situation.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> And the error message:
> Error in list_files(file, ignore_missing, TRUE, verbosity) :
> ? File '' does not exist.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:15 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com
> <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> You may get a helpful response, but if not, I'd suggest posting
code
> you
> have to read one file.? Then lots of people could likely show you
> how to
> modify it to read all 4000 files.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 02/11/2020 12:28 p.m., Gordon Ballingrud wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I need some help with loading text-file data into R for analysis
with
> > packages like koRpus.
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem I am facing is getting R to recognize a folder full
> of Word
> > files (about 4,000) as data which I can then make koRpus perform
> analyses
> > like Coleman-Liau indexing. If at all possible, I prefer to make
> this work
> > with Word files. The key problem is the struggle to cause R to
> recognize
> > the text (Word) files in bulk (that is, all at the same time) so
that
> > koRpus can do its thing with those files.
> >
> >
> >
> > My attempts to make this work have all been in vain, but I know
that
> > packages like koRpus would be limited in usefulness if there were
> no way to
> > get the package to do its work on a large collection of files all
> at once.
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope this problem will make sense to someone, and that there is
> a tenable
> > solution to it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gordon
> >
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> >
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