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tosca (version 0.3-4)

showTexts: Exports Readable Text Lists

Description

Exports the article id, text, title and date.

Usage

showTexts(object, id = names(object$text), file, fileEncoding = "UTF-8")

Value

A list of the requested articles. If file is set, writes a csv including the meta-data of the requested articles.

Arguments

object

textmeta object

id

Character vector or matrix including article ids

file

Character Filename for the export. If not specified the functions output ist only invisible.

fileEncoding

character string: declares file encoding. For more information see write.csv

Examples

Run this code
texts <- list(A="Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day.
Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime",
B="So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish",
C="A very able manipulative mathematician, Fisher enjoys a real mastery
in evaluating complicated multiple integrals.")

corpus <- textmeta(meta=data.frame(id=c("A", "B", "C", "D"),
title=c("Fishing", "Don't panic!", "Sir Ronald", "Berlin"),
date=c("1885-01-02", "1979-03-04", "1951-05-06", "1967-06-02"),
additionalVariable=1:4, stringsAsFactors=FALSE), text=texts)

exportedTexts <- showTexts(object=corpus, id = c("A","C"))

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