Vcorpus Rstudio combining .txt files

Asked Mar 26 '17 at 15:51

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I have a directory of .txt files and need to combine then into one file. each file would be a separate line. I tried:

new_corpus <-VCorpus(DirSource("Downloads/data/"))

The data is in the file but I get an error

Error in DirSource(directory = "Downloads/data/") : 
empty directory

This is a bit basic but I was only given this information on how to create the corpus. What I need to do is take this file and create one factor that is the .txt and another with an ID, in the form of:

ID .txt
ID .txt
.......

EDIT To clarify on emilliman5 comment: I need both a data frame and a corpus. The example I am working from used a csv file with the data already tagged for a Naive Bayes problem. I can work through that example and all the steps. The data I have is in a different format. It is 2 directories (/ham and /spam) of short .txt files. I was able to create a corpus, when I changed my command to:

new_corpus <-VCorpus(DirSource("~/Downloads/data/"))

I have cleaned the raw data and can make DTM but at the end I will need to create a crossTable with the labels spam and ham. I do not understand how I insert that information into the corpus.

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asked Mar 26 '17 at 15:51

user3137110

What does `dir("Downloads/data/")` produce? – emilliman5 Mar 26 '17 at 15:57
dir("Downloads/data/") produces character(0) – user3137110 Mar 26 '17 at 16:10
That denotes the directory is empty. – jwells Mar 26 '17 at 16:14
if I add the "~" it reads the files --------"~/Downloads/data/" I tried "Home/..... but that did not work. now I need to make it a dataframe – user3137110 Mar 26 '17 at 16:16
Do you need to create a Corpus or a dataframe with an ID and .txt? You do not need one for the other. Please head over to this post to strengthen and clarify your question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example – emilliman5 Mar 27 '17 at 13:50

Vcorpus Rstudio combining .txt files

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