R: Read In a Reuters Corpus Volume 1 Document

readRCV1 {tm} | R Documentation

## Read In a Reuters Corpus Volume 1 Document

### Description

Read in a Reuters Corpus Volume 1 XML document.

### Usage

    readRCV1(elem, language, id)
    readRCV1asPlain(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` | Not used.

### Value

An `XMLTextDocument` for `readRCV1`, or a `PlainTextDocument` for `readRCV1asPlain`, representing the text and metadata extracted from `elem$content`.

### References

Lewis, D. D.; Yang, Y.; Rose, T.; and Li, F (2004). RCV1: A New Benchmark Collection for Text Categorization Research. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5, 361–397. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/lewis04a/lewis04a.pdf

### See Also

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

### Examples

    f <- system.file("texts", "rcv1_2330.xml", package = "tm")
    f_bin <- readBin(f, raw(), file.size(f))
    rcv1 <- readRCV1(elem = list(content = f_bin), language = "en", id = "id1")
    content(rcv1)
    meta(rcv1)

[Package tm version 0.7-8 Index]