DirSource Import file issue

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I have been trying to import the file

reuters <- Corpus(DirSource(directory = "E:\\R Programs\\Test\\Reuteurs\\reut2-000.xml", encoding = "UTF-8"), 
   readerControl = list(reader = readReut21578XMLasPlain))

However I get below error:

Error in DirSource(directory = "E:\\R Programs\\Test\\Reuteurs\\reut2-000.xml",  : 
  empty directory

I have also checked other solutions provide in stackoverflow but its not working for me. Am I missing anything?

But below code works: Why DirSource method is not working for me? Am I missing anything?

reuters <- Corpus(URISource("file://E:\\R Programs\\Test\\Reuteurs\\reut2-000.xml",encoding="UTF-8"), 
   readerControl = list(reader = readReut21578XMLasPlain))

Reference link which I referred:

R: Got problems in reading text file

Using R for Text Mining Reuters-21578

R Error in trying to access local data

have you tried to first locate on the right folder with `setwd()` and then use only the name of the file ? — ClementWalter, May 03 '16 at 08:59
`DirSource` does not look for a specific file but a directory. Look at `?DirSource` and try `DirSource(directory = "E:\\R Programs\\Test\\Reuteurs", ...` — ClementWalter, May 03 '16 at 12:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '16 at 22:40

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reut2-000.xml probably is a file, and not a directory?

Opening a file as directory will cause an error.

answered May 03 '16 at 22:40

Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

I would suggest that you use the preprocessed Reuters Corpus from R package tm.corpus.Reuters21578 (as I've already recommended here: Using R for Text Mining Reuters-21578).

install.packages("tm.corpus.Reuters21578", repos = "http://datacube.wu.ac.at")
library(tm.corpus.Reuters21578)
data(Reuters21578)

These are the same data as in the original Reuters xml files, however without the issues with encoding, missing xml declaration etc.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '18 at 15:03

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finally i found a way out to this error:

words<-Corpus(VectorSource(fread(file,encoding = 'UTF-8',sep = ',',verbose = TRUE)))

hope this helps

answered Feb 24 '18 at 15:03

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