help loading files into R for koRpus analysis

Thanks; that's a good point. Here is what I have been working with:

library(quanteda)
library(readtext)

texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/", "/word/*.docx"))
On Windows, you can't have an empty entry in a pathname, so you should 
leave off one of the slashes:

   texts <- readtext(paste0("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/", 
"word/*.docx"))

You could skip the paste0 entirely, and use

   texts <- readtext("/Users/Gordon/Desktop/WPSCASES/word/*.docx")

but I'm assuming this is just an example of a more complex situation.

Duncan Murdoch
And the error message:
Error in list_files(file, ignore_missing, TRUE, verbosity) :
 ? File '' does not exist.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:15 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com 
<mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:

    You may get a helpful response, but if not, I'd suggest posting code
    you
    have to read one file.? Then lots of people could likely show you
    how to
    modify it to read all 4000 files.

    Duncan Murdoch

    On 02/11/2020 12:28 p.m., Gordon Ballingrud wrote:
     > Hello all,
     >
     >
     >
     > I need some help with loading text-file data into R for analysis with
     > packages like koRpus.
     >
     >
     >
     > The problem I am facing is getting R to recognize a folder full
    of Word
     > files (about 4,000) as data which I can then make koRpus perform
    analyses
     > like Coleman-Liau indexing. If at all possible, I prefer to make
    this work
     > with Word files. The key problem is the struggle to cause R to
    recognize
     > the text (Word) files in bulk (that is, all at the same time) so that
     > koRpus can do its thing with those files.
     >
     >
     >
     > My attempts to make this work have all been in vain, but I know that
     > packages like koRpus would be limited in usefulness if there were
    no way to
     > get the package to do its work on a large collection of files all
    at once.
     >
     >
     >
     > I hope this problem will make sense to someone, and that there is
    a tenable
     > solution to it.
     >
     >
     >
     > Thanks,
     >
     > Gordon
     >
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help loading files into R for koRpus analysis

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