The goal of mboxr is to allow R users to conveniently import an mbox file into R tibble for hands-on analyses in R environment.
mboxr requires Anaconda Python environment on your system Path.
If you have not installed Conda environment on your system, please download and install Anaconda (Python 3.6 or later is recommended).
For this package, I have implemented mailbox.mbox, email.header.decode_header, email.utils and pandas.DataFrame Python modules into R using reticulate.
You can install the latest development version as follows:
if(!require(remotes)) { install.packages("remotes") } remotes::install_github("jooyoungseo/mboxr")
You can install the released version of mboxr from CRAN with:
install.packages('mboxr')
Please use read_mbox() function after loading mboxr library like below:
library(mboxr) # Importing your mbox file into an R: test <- system.file("extdata", "test1.mbox", package = "mboxr") data <- read_mbox(test) data #> # A tibble: 2 x 6 #> date from to cc subject content #> <dttm> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> #> 1 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample ~ "This is the bod~ #> 2 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample ~ "This is the sec~ # Or, you can save your mbox file as an RDS file while assigning a tibble variable at the same time like below: data <- read_mbox(mbox = test, file = "output.rds") data #> # A tibble: 2 x 6 #> date from to cc subject content #> <dttm> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> #> 1 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample ~ "This is the bod~ #> 2 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample ~ "This is the sec~ # You can merge all mbox files in your current directory or in any specified path into one tibble and save as an RDS file for the integrated one: test_path <- system.file("extdata", package = "mboxr") all_data <- merge_mbox_all(path = test_path, file = "all_merged_mbox.rds") ## Find your "output.rds" file saved in your working directory while freely using the imported tibble in your R session! all_data #> # A tibble: 4 x 6 #> date from to cc subject content #> <dttm> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> #> 1 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample m~ "This is the bo~ #> 2 2011-07-08 12:08:34 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Sample m~ "This is the se~ #> 3 2011-07-09 12:09:35 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> Another ~ "R is the best!~ #> 4 2011-07-10 10:03:32 Author <~ Recipient~ <NA> The last~ "This is the la~