| short description | readtext is a one-function package that does exactly what it says on the tin: It reads files containing text, along with any associated document-level metadata, which we call “docvars”, for document variables. Plain text files do not have docvars, but other forms such as .csv, .tab, .xml, and .json files usually do.
| software category | scraping documents
| developer | Kenneth Benoit [aut, cre, cph], Adam Obeng [aut], Kohei Watanabe [ctb], Akitaka Matsuo [ctb], Paul Nulty [ctb], Stefan Müller [ctb]
