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Read writing samples from a directory of .txt files

Source: R/data_import.R
read_samples_dir.Rd

This function reads all text files in a directory and uses the filename (without extension) as the sample ID and the file contents as the text.

Usage

read_samples_dir(path = ".", pattern = "\\.txt$")

Arguments

path

Directory containing .txt files.

pattern

A regular expression used to match file names. Defaults to "\\.txt$", meaning all files ending in .txt.

Value

A tibble with columns:

  • ID: filename without extension

  • text: file contents as a single character string

Examples

# Create a temporary directory with sample text files
samples_dir <- tempfile()
dir.create(samples_dir)

writeLines("This is sample A.", file.path(samples_dir, "A.txt"))
writeLines("This is sample B.", file.path(samples_dir, "B.txt"))

# Read samples into a tibble
samples <- read_samples_dir(samples_dir)

samples
#> # A tibble: 2 × 2
#>   ID    text             
#>   <chr> <chr>            
#> 1 A     This is sample A.
#> 2 B     This is sample B.