Return a data frame

[mvuorre]

Great package! Would it be possible to add an option to return a data frame instead of a knitr_kable object?

If text_stats() returned a df, it would be easier to use in the document itself to grab the word count. This way it could be used to automatically insert word counts to documents.

Cheers.

[benmarwick]

Thanks, yes, that should be straightforward. I currently have the unexported function wordcountaddin:::text_stats_fn_(text) but it returns a list rather than a data frame. I'll have a go at an exported function that returns a data frame. That's a great idea to use it to insert the word count in a doc!

[gaardhus]

In case anybody else still wants this functionality I use a kind of hacky workaround and just parse the HTML table outputted by the function.

ts = as.data.frame(
    wordcountaddin::text_stats() %>%
        as.character() %>%
        read_html() %>%
        html_table(fill = TRUE)
)