[R] Reading Multiple Files for Text Mining in R Using TM Package?

[Shivi Bhatia]

Thanks Pikal. This worked for me.

Regards, Shivi

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:46 PM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:

> Well,
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> you read documents from
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> directory = "D:/Shivi/R Project"
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> and you say that you have 220+ files in this directory
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> If you move respective files into some working directory you could use let
> say
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> docs<- Corpus(DirSource(directory = "D:/Shivi/R Project/work"))
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> without need to use setwd.
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> But maybe I do not understand your problem corrrectly.
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> Cheers
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> Petr
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> *From:* Shivi Bhatia [mailto:shivipmp82 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 2, 2017 2:06 PM
> *To:* PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> *Cc:* R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [R] Reading Multiple Files for Text Mining in R Using TM
> Package?
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> Hi Pikal,
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> So i understand it correctly you are advising to temporarily change the
> working directory using the setwd syntax.
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> Thanks, Shivi.
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> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:33 PM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Hmm, if you need only three files why not copy them to another directory
> and use the same command for reading them from that other directory.
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> You probably could do this from R itself however I am almost sure that
> doing this task by OS is far less complicated.
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> Cheers
> Petr
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shivi
> > Bhatia
> > Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2017 1:00 PM
> > To: R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
> > Subject: [R] Reading Multiple Files for Text Mining in R Using TM
> Package?
> >
> > Hi All ,
> >
> > I am trying to read few csv files for some text mining assignment.
> >
> > I have used this command to check the # of files in the working
> directory:
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> > length(dir(path="D:/Shivi/R Project", all.files = TRUE)) This results to
> more
> > than 220 approx.
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> > I just need 3 files from these to use for the text mining purpose
> however if i
> > use:
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> > docs<- Corpus(DirSource(directory = "D:/Shivi/R Project")) this reads
> all the
> > 220+ files
> >
> > Please suggest how to achieve this feat. Have researched on stack
> overflow,
> > where they have used multiple read.csv statements to read multiple files
> > however do not find that very effective way.
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> > Thank you.
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