textreadr (version 0.5.1)

read_doc: Read in .doc Content

Description

Read in the content from a .doc file using http://www.winfield.demon.nl via the antiword package.

Usage

read_doc(file, skip = 0, remove.empty = TRUE, trim = TRUE,
  format = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

file

The path to the .doc file.

skip

The number of lines to skip.

remove.empty

logical. If TRUE empty elements in the vector are removed.

trim

logical. If TRUE the leading/training white space is reoved.

format

logical. If TRUE the output will keep doc formatting (e.g., bold, italics, underlined). This corresponds to the -f flag in antiword.

…

ignored.

Value

Returns a character vector.

Examples

## Not run: ------------------------------------
# x <- system.file("docs/Yasmine_Interview_Transcript.doc",
#     package = "textreadr")
# read_doc(x)
## ---------------------------------------------