[R] How to read plain text documents into a vector?

[kenhorvath]

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

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