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Combine chapter text files into one numbered file per book

Source: R/combine_book_files.R
combine_book_files.Rd

Takes chapter files named like 1_howcanyou.txt and 2_howcanyou.txt, groups them by the shared title stem after the underscore, orders chapters by their numeric prefix, and writes one combined .txt file per group using filenames like 1_howcanyou.txt.

Usage

combine_book_files(
  input_dir,
  output_dir = file.path(input_dir, "combined"),
  separator = "\n\n",
  overwrite = FALSE
)

Arguments

input_dir

Character scalar. Folder containing chapter .txt files.

output_dir

Character scalar. Folder where combined .txt files should be written. Defaults to a combined/ subfolder inside input_dir.

separator

Character scalar. Text inserted between chapters when combining them. Defaults to two line breaks.

overwrite

Logical scalar. If TRUE, replace existing output files. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A tibble with one row per combined book and columns describing the numeric output file, original title stem, and source chapter numbers.