dir_map: Map Transcript Files from a Directory to a Script
Description
Generate script text (and optionally output it to the clipboard and/or an
external file) that can be used to individually read in every file in a
directory and assign it to an object.
Usage
dir_map(
loc = "DATA/TRANSCRIPTS/CLEANED_TRANSCRIPTS",
obj.prefix = "dat",
use.path = TRUE,
col.names = c("person", "dialogue"),
file = NULL,
copy2clip = interactive()
)
Value
Prints a read in script text to the console, optionally copies the
wrapped text to the clipboard on a Mac or Windows machine and optionally
prints to an outside file.
Arguments
- loc
The path/location of the transcript data files.
- obj.prefix
A character string that will be used as the prefix (followed
by a unique digit) as the assignment object.
- use.path
logical. If TRUE
use the actual path to the
loc
argument. If FALSE
, the code may be more portable in that
the actual input to loc
is supplied to the
read.transcript
.
- col.names
Supplies a vector of column names to the transcript columns.
- file
A connection, or a character string naming the file to print to.
- copy2clip
logical. If TRUE
attempts to copy the output to the
clipboard.
Details
Generally, the researcher will want to read in and parse every
transcript document separately. The task of writing the script for multiple
transcript documents can be tedious. This function is designed to make the
process more efficient and less prone to errors.
Examples
Run this codeif (FALSE) {
(DIR <- system.file("extdata/transcripts", package = "qdap"))
dir_map(DIR)
}
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