[R] Select elements from text

mdvaan mathijsdevaan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 15:52:36 CET 2012


Hi,

I have a series of MS word files and each file contains plain text. From
these texts I would like to extract only those elements (read: words) that
are between square brackets. Example of a text:

Most fundamentally, it has led to an effort to clarify the organizational
form concept. According to them [see also Smith, Jones and Carroll 2002],
categories emerge as audience members recognize dissimilarities among groups
of consumers and label them as members of a common set [Nicol 2000].

Now I would like to get the following selection:

see also Smith, Jones and Carroll 2002
Nicol 2000

Any ideas on how to do this? What would be the best way to import the text
in R? The entire text as an element in a dataframe? Thank you very much!

Best,

Mathijs


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