[R-meta] Importing Correlations from PDF to table format
The pdftools package might be helpful: https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools It has very low-level utilities for extracting text from pdf. You'd still have to do some data clean-up to get the correlations into the form needed for analysis. The tabulizer package is meant to provide tools customized for working with pdf tables: https://github.com/ropensci/tabulizer But it requires Java and it appears to be archived on CRAN. I'm not sure what its development status is. Caveat emptor, I guess. James
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:20 PM Kiet Huynh <kietduchuynh at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to automate in R (or any
software) the process of importing correlation values from PDF to usable
data in a table format that can be used in meta-analysis? My process has
been to copy the correlations manually one-by-one from the PDF to excel
(which takes a lifetime!), and then import the excel data into R. I'm sure
there must be a better, faster, and less error-prone way to do this.
Thank you,
Kiet
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Kiet D. Huynh, Ph.D.
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CLEAR Goldblum-Carr Postdoctoral Fellow
Palo Alto University
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Palo Alto, CA 94304
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