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"))
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.dun...@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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