[R] package tm: reading XML files

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le mardi 29 mai 2012 à 10:03 +0200, Ad Feelders a écrit :
> Dear fellow R users,
> 
> I'm using the package tm for text mining, and have a problem with 
> reading in a corpus from XML files.
> When I copy the example from "Introduction to the tm package" of the 
> small reuters subset "crude", everything goes well, and I get a corpus 
> with the required meta data.
> When I read in the entire reuters21578 corpus in XML format however (or 
> a self-created subset thereof) the meta data is lost, and the files are 
> interpreted as plain text.
> I use the following command, where the indicated directory contains all 
> reuters 21578 documents as separate XML files:
> 
>  > reuters21578 <- Corpus(DirSource("C:/Data/Reuters/preprocessed"), 
> readerContol=list(reader=readReut21578XML))
You have a typo in that command, "readerContol" should be "readerControl".


My two cents