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Create a corpus

Source: R/create_corpus.R
create_corpus.Rd

Function to read in text data and turn it into a quanteda corpus object.

Usage

create_corpus(path)

Arguments

path

A string containing the path to a folder of plain text files (ending in .txt) with their name structured as following: authorname_textname.txt (e.g. smith_text1.txt).

Value

A quanteda corpus object with the authors' names as a docvar.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
path <- "path/to/data"
create_corpus(path)
} # }