R text file and text mining…how to load data

Question

I am using the R package tm and I want to do some text mining. This is one document and is treated as a bag of words.

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Answer 1

I actually found this quite tricky to begin with, so here's a more comprehensive explanation.

First, you need to set up a source for your text documents. I found that the easiest way (especially if you plan on adding more documents, is to create a directory source that will read all of your files in.

source <- DirSource("yourdirectoryname/") #input path for documents
YourCorpus <- Corpus(source, readerControl=list(reader=readPlain)) #load in documents

You can then apply the StemDocument function to your Corpus. HTH.