idiolect (version 1.0.1)

create_corpus: Create a corpus

Description

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

Usage

create_corpus(path)

Value

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

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).

Examples

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