Kenneth Benoit

docvarsfrom = "filepaths" not working as expected

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### Error This should parse out the filepaths, not filepaths _and_ filenames. ```r > (rt3 list.files(path = paste0(DATA_DIR, "txt/movie_reviews/"), recursive = TRUE) [1] "neg/neg_cv000_29416.txt" "neg/neg_cv001_19502.txt" "neg/neg_cv002_17424.txt" [4] "neg/neg_cv003_12683.txt" "neg/neg_cv004_12641.txt" "pos/pos_cv000_29590.txt"...

Apparently `tm::readPDF()` can do this...

> R currently only emits a warning when if/while statement is used with a condition of length greater than one, e.g. > > ```r > if (c(1,2)>0) TRUE > [1]...

`text_field` is not working correctly. ```r > readtext("tests/data/xls/test3.xlsx", text_field = "other") readtext object consisting of 4 documents and 4 docvars. # data.frame [4 x 6] doc_id other colour text number...

Related to https://github.com/kbenoit/readtext/issues/13 but that did not solve it. We need to be able to import the files in Chapter 10 of _Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature_...

Add support for Apache Tika types

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From [**quanteda** issue #380](https://github.com/kbenoit/quanteda/issues/380): > Apache Tika (https://tika.apache.org/) might be useful. > The KNIME folks just added that to their text mining nodes. Thanks @BobMuenchen.

Need to add .rtf conversion support

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Write a package to wrap around http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/?

unzipping fails if the path contains a space

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```r > tfile

Encoding handling not handled by stringi and possibly inconsistent

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Our README states: > (All ecnoding functions are handled by the stringi package.) But this is hardly true, since we use the base `iconv()` that happens through `file()` in `get-functions.R`,...