readtext: Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files

Functions for importing and handling text files and formatted text files with additional meta-data, such including '.csv', '.tab', '.json', '.xml', '.html', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.rtf', '.xls', '.xlsx', and others.

Version:	0.92.1
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6)
Imports:	antiword, data.table, digest, httr, jsonlite (≥ 0.9.10), pillar, pdftools, readODS (≥ 1.7.0), readxl, streamR, stringi, striprtf, xml2, utils
Suggests:	knitr, pkgload, rmarkdown, quanteda (≥ 3.0), testthat, covr, spelling
Published:	2025-07-27
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.readtext
Author:	Kenneth Benoit [aut, cre, cph], Adam Obeng [aut], Kohei Watanabe [ctb], Akitaka Matsuo [ctb], Paul Nulty [ctb], Stefan Müller [ctb]
Maintainer:	Kenneth Benoit <kbenoit at lse.ac.uk>
BugReports:	https://github.com/quanteda/readtext/issues
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://readtext.quanteda.io/, https://github.com/quanteda/readtext
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	readtext results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	readtext.html , readtext.pdf
Vignettes:	Reading text files with readtext (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	readtext_0.92.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: readtext_0.92.1.zip, r-release: readtext_0.92.1.zip, r-oldrel: readtext_0.92.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): readtext_0.92.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): readtext_0.92.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): readtext_0.92.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): readtext_0.92.1.tgz
Old sources:	readtext archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	daiR, FSK2R, PacketLLM, tall, textAnnotatoR, warabandi
Reverse suggests:	aifeducation, cld2, idiolect, keyATM, portfolioBacktest

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