text mining - Retaining newlines and other content when reading in a screenplay in R

Question

I figure read.lines() or maybe the tm package will be the way to go for this, but I was wondering what recommendations folks have for reading a .txt screenplay. Demarcating parts of the screenplay will require case-sensitive and newline-sensitive regexes and such, so I need to preserve all those elements in the content that is read. Thoughts?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65912049/retaining-newlines-and-other-content-when-reading-in-a-screenplay-in-r

Answer 1

read_file() in the tidyverse package does a nice job of this.