Hi Sarah, I looked at the documentation that you linked to. It contains the step
text_df <- tibble(line = 1:4, text = text) before it does the step text_df %>% unnest_tokens(word, text) So you may be missing a step. Best, Eric On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:05 PM Sarah Payne <spayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi--I'm fairly new to R and trying to do a text mining project on a novel > using the tidytext package. The novel is saved as a plain text document and > I can import it into RStudio just fine. For reference I'm trying to do > something similar to section 1.3 of this tidy text tutorial > <https://www.tidytextmining.com/tidytext.html>, except I'm working with one > novel instead of many. So I import the novel and then run: > > "tidy_novel <- quicksandr %>% > unnest_tokens (word, text)" > > I get the following error: > > Error in check_input(x) : > Input must be a character vector of any length or a list of character > vectors, each of which has a length of 1. > > typeof(novel) returns "list" and str(novel) returns > > Classes ‘spec_tbl_df’, ‘tbl_df’, ‘tbl’ and 'data.frame': 955 obs. of 1 > variable: > $ FOR E. S. I.: chr "FOR E. S. I." "My old man died in a fine big house. > My ma died in a shack. I wonder where I'm gonna die, Being neither white > nor black?'" "LANGSTON HUGHES" "ONE" ... > - attr(*, "problems")=Classes ‘tbl_df’, ‘tbl’ and 'data.frame': 8 obs. of > 5 variables: > ..$ row : int 530 726 733 836 853 886 889 942 > ..$ col : chr NA NA NA NA ... > ..$ expected: chr "1 columns" "1 columns" "1 columns" "1 columns" ... > ..$ actual : chr "2 columns" "2 columns" "2 columns" "2 columns" ... > ..$ file : chr "'quicksandr.txt'" "'quicksandr.txt'" > "'quicksandr.txt'" "'quicksandr.txt'" ... > - attr(*, "spec")= > .. cols( > .. `FOR E. S. I.` = col_character() > .. ) > > > > I'm just importing the text file and then trying to run the unnest_tokens > function, so maybe I'm missing a step in between? I seem to need my text > file in a different format, so would appreciate answers on how to do that. > Thanks, and let me know if I need to provide more info! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.