PDXRugger wrote: > > Howdy Y'all, > > So i am looking to read a word document in the following formats(.doc) or > any type of accessible word processor software (e.g. text .txt, notepad, > etc). Had the ability to search certain words, for instance "banana", > "peacock","Weapons" "Mass" "Destruction". Then i could summarize and view > the results. i looked and the only thing i could find was the below where > i want to analyze "letter.doc" and look for the words mentioned in quotes > above. Its aparently wrong but im wondering if this is even possible. > Please advise. Thanks > > In Solidarity > JR >
Well... you could make a vector of the words you want to find: to.find <- c( 'banana', 'peacock', 'Weapons' ) Read in the file... file.text <- readLines( 'myFile.txt' ) And recursively apply the grep command in order to determine which lines contain matches for your words: line.matches <- unlist( lapply( to.find, grep, x = file.text ) ) It may do what you want for plain text files, as for Microsoft Word files... well... Sometimes there is a price to pay for using a closed proprietary binary document format. Good luck! -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/reading-and-analyzing-a-word-document-tp25691972p25692279.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
