Converting an mbox file into a tibble data_frame.

Use this function for importing and converting an mbox file into a tibble object.

read_mbox(mbox = NULL, file = NULL)

Arguments

mbox	Input mbox file.
file	Output RDS file if you want to save. The default is NULL, which is not saving the output as a file.

Value

Tibble object for the input mbox file will be returned.

Details

read_mbox

See example below.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

https://docs.python.org/3/library/mailbox.html

https://www.anaconda.com/download/

Examples

# \donttest{
# Changing working directory to temp for the demonstration purpose only.
setwd(tempdir())
library(mboxr)
# Feeding an mbox file through read_mbox function:
test <- system.file("extdata", "test1.mbox", package = "mboxr")
data <- read_mbox(mbox = test, file = "output.rds")
#> Warning: path[1]="C:\Anaconda3\envs\bookworm/python.exe": The system cannot find the file specified
#> Warning: path[1]="C:\Anaconda3\envs\bookworm/python.exe": The system cannot find the file specified
# Now you can use the imported file as a tibble.
str(data)
#> tibble [2 x 11] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
#>  $ date           : POSIXct[1:2], format: "2011-07-08 12:08:34" "2011-07-08 12:08:34"
#>  $ message_ID     : chr [1:2] NA NA
#>  $ in_reply_to    : chr [1:2] NA NA
#>  $ references     : chr [1:2] NA NA
#>  $ from           : chr [1:2] "Author <author@example.com>" "Author <author@example.com>"
#>  $ to             : chr [1:2] "Recipient <recipient@example.com>" "Recipient <recipient@example.com>"
#>  $ cc             : chr [1:2] NA NA
#>  $ subject        : chr [1:2] "Sample message 1" "Sample message 2"
#>  $ content        : chr [1:2] "This is the body.\n>From (should be escaped).\nThere are 3 lines.\n" "This is the second body.\n"
#>  $ num_discussants: num [1:2] 1 1
#>  $ weekday        : Ord.factor w/ 7 levels "Sun"<"Mon"<"Tue"<..: 6 6
# }