kenhorvath wrote:
>
>
>
> Paul Hiemstra wrote:
>>
>>
>> file_list = list.files("/where/are/the/files")
>> obj_list = lapply(file_list, FUN = yourfunction)
>>
>> yourfunction is probably either read.table or some read function from
>> the tm package. So obj_list will become a list of either data.frame's or
>> tm objects.
>>
>>
>
> The read function that most probably should be adequate is readLines(), so
> the command would read:
>
> obj_list <- lapply(file_list,readLines)
>
> To convert to a vector, do the following:
>
> obj_list <- lapply(obj_list,paste,collapse=" ")
> obj_vec <- as.vector(obj_list)
>
> Ken
>
>
Thanks to all for replies. Just so that others who have the same problem
and find this thread aren't left without a status update, I summarize what
has happened thus far. I have sent Dieter an email (offline) about the
vignette he mentions. There are actually two vignettes. Both have examples
of a vector of characters being made into a tm corpus, but neither shows how
to read documents on the file system into the vectors. I tried the other
two suggestions, but paste seemed not to "glue" the separate lines together
into one character string. Perhaps I missed something (collapse?). Perhaps
I'll have another look.
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