April 2018
Beginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
While it is interesting to actually load up a text into Jupyter, the follow-on work to determine word usage and meaning can be very enlightening. For our example, we need to locate a reasonable text source for access. Political speeches tend to be recorded verbatim via several sources. For our example, we can use President Trump's speech at a tax reform event recorded at https://transcripts.factcheck.org/remarks-president-trump-tax-reform-event/.
When reading a text file in R, the underlying component of the R libraries is expecting some basic constraints on the layout, particularly that the last record (carriage-return/linefeed-delimited set of text) is empty. That is not the case when accessing the URL mentioned just now. ...