R text mining documents from CSV file (one row per doc)

Question

I am trying to work with the tm package in R, and have a CSV file of customer feedback with each line being a different instance of feedback. I want to import all the conten

Answer 1

Here's a complete workflow to get what you want:

# change this file location to suit your machine
file_loc <- "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Book1.csv"
# change TRUE to FALSE if you have no column headings in the CSV
x <- read.csv(file_loc, header = TRUE)
require(tm)
corp <- Corpus(DataframeSource(x))
dtm <- DocumentTermMatrix(corp)

In the dtm object each row will be a doc, or a line of your original CSV file. Each column will be a word.

Answer 2

You can use TermDocumentMatrix() on your fdbk object, and obtain a term document matrix where each row represent a customer feedback.