readtext (version 0.76)

data_files_encodedtexts: a .zip file of texts containing a variety of differently encoded texts

Description

A set of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, plus one or two other miscellaneous texts, for testing the text input functions that need to translate different input encodings.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# unzip the files to a temporary directory
FILEDIR <- tempdir()
unzip(system.file("extdata", "data_files_encodedtexts.zip", package = "readtext"), 
      exdir = FILEDIR)

# get encoding from filename
filenames <- list.files(FILEDIR, "\\.txt$")
# strip the extension
filenames <- gsub(".txt$", "", filenames)
parts <- strsplit(filenames, "_")
fileencodings <- sapply(parts, "[", 3)
fileencodings

# find out which conversions are unavailable (through iconv())
cat("Encoding conversions not available for this platform:")
notAvailableIndex <- which(!(fileencodings %in% iconvlist()))
fileencodings[notAvailableIndex]

# try readtext
require(quanteda)
txts <- readtext(paste0(FILEDIR, "/", "*.txt"))
substring(texts(txts)[1], 1, 80) # gibberish
substring(texts(txts)[4], 1, 80) # hex
substring(texts(txts)[40], 1, 80) # hex

# read them in again
txts <- readtext(paste0(FILEDIR,  "/", "*.txt"), encoding = fileencodings)
substring(texts(txts)[1], 1, 80)  # English
substring(texts(txts)[4], 1, 80)  # Arabic, looking good 
substring(texts(txts)[40], 1, 80) # Cyrillic, looking good
substring(texts(txts)[7], 1, 80)  # Chinese, looking good
substring(texts(txts)[26], 1, 80) # Hindi, looking good

txts <- readtext(paste0(FILEDIR, "/", "*.txt"), encoding = fileencodings,
                  docvarsfrom = "filenames", 
                  docvarnames = c("document", "language", "inputEncoding"))
encodingCorpus <- corpus(txts, source = "Created by encoding-tests.R") 
summary(encodingCorpus)
# }