R: Read In a Text Document

readPlain {tm} | R Documentation

## Read In a Text Document

### Description

Read in a text document without knowledge about its internal structure and possible available metadata.

### Usage

    readPlain(elem, language, id)

### Arguments

`elem` | a named list with the component `content` which must hold the document to be read in.
`language` | a string giving the language.
`id` | a character giving a unique identifier for the created text document.

### Value

A `PlainTextDocument` representing `elem$content`. The argument `id` is used as fallback if `elem$uri` is null.

### See Also

`Reader` for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

### Examples

    docs <- c("This is a text.", "This another one.")
    vs <- VectorSource(docs)
    elem <- getElem(stepNext(vs))
    (result <- readPlain(elem, "en", "id1"))
    meta(result)

[Package tm version 0.7-5 Index]