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

[Dieter Menne]

kenhorvath wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Dieter Menne wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> library(tm)
>> filenames = list.files(path=".",pattern="\\.txt")
>> docs = ""
>> for (filename in filenames){
>>   docs = c(docs,paste(readLines(file(filename)),collapse="\n"))
>> }
>> docs
>> ## continue as in example
>> vs = VectorSource(docs)
>> 
>> 
> 
> If in any way possible I would recommend to do the whole procedure via
> lists, not recursively.
> 
> Ken
> 

While I agree that the appending could be more efficiently be done by a list
as an intermediate, the 

docs = c(doc," ljljljl")

construct is not recursive, even if not efficient.

Dieer


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