Search text — search_text • papercheck

Search the text of a paper or list of paper objects. Also works on the table results of a search_text() call.

Usage

search_text(
  paper,
  pattern = ".*",
  section = NULL,
  return = c("sentence", "paragraph", "section", "match"),
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

paper: a paper object or a list of paper objects
pattern: the regex pattern to search for
section: the section(s) to search in
return: the kind of text to return, the full sentence, paragraph, or section that the text is in, or just the (regex) match
ignore.case: whether to ignore case when text searching
...: additional arguments to pass to grep() and regexpr(), such as fixed = TRUE

Value

a data frame of matches

Examples

filename <- demoxml()
paper <- read_grobid(filename)

search_text(paper, "p\\s*(=|<)\\s*[0-9\\.]+", return = "match")
#> # A tibble: 2 × 7
#>   text       section header    div     p     s id                 
#>   <chr>      <chr>   <chr>   <dbl> <dbl> <int> <chr>              
#> 1 p = 0.005. results Results     3     1     2 to_err_is_human.xml
#> 2 p = 0.152. results Results     3     2     1 to_err_is_human.xml