Hi Scott, I have never done this myself but I read something recently on the r-help distribution that was related. I just did a quick search and found a few hits that might work for you.
1. https://medium.com/@CharlesBordet/how-to-extract-and-clean-data-from-pdf-files-in-r-da11964e252e 2. http://bxhorn.com/2016/extract-data-tables-from-pdf-files-in-r/ 3. https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/textreadr/versions/0.7.0/topics/read_pdf HTH, Eric On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Scott Clausen <scottclau...@mac.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new to R and am using it with RStudio to learn the language. I’m doing so > as I have quite a lot of traffic data I would like to explore. My problem is > that all the data is located on a number of PDFs. Can someone point me to > info on gathering data from other sources? I’ve been to the R FAQ and didn’t > see anything and would appreciate your thoughts. > > I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion > and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. > > -- Mark Twain > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
