Question

I want to read a single file (the file is a html document) from my computer and store it in a Corpus (I’m using the package tm).

Do you have any solution to do that?

Here is what I tried :

data<-read.csv(fileName)
c2<-Corpus(VectorSource(data))

it mostly works, but I sometime get the error : more columns than column names

I guess I’m not supposed to use read.csv for a webpage, as I didn’t find a better solution.

Thanks for your help =)

Answer 1

A webpage definitely does not conform to the specifications that a CSV should. Instead you probably want to use the readHTMLTable function from the XML package.

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This is grabbing from an actual webpage but it should be the same idea

file <- "http://xkcd.com/"
dat <- readLines(file)
c2 <- Corpus(VectorSource(dat))