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This function takes a character string or a path to a text file as input and converts it to tidy-text format. The resulting tibble contains one row for each line of the input text, along with the file name, and line number.

Usage

read_text(text)

Arguments

text

A character string containing the text to be converted, or a path to a text file.

Value

A tibble containing the converted text in tidy-text format, with columns for the text, file name, line number, and batch index (if applicable).

Examples

read_text("Hello, how are you?")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#>   text                file              line batch_index
#>   <chr>               <chr>            <int>       <dbl>
#> 1 Hello, how are you? character string     1           1
read_text("path/to/text/file.txt")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#>   text                  file              line batch_index
#>   <chr>                 <chr>            <int>       <dbl>
#> 1 path/to/text/file.txt character string     1           1