Not working on current LexisNexis Version

[got4b]

Hi Johannes,

Thank you so much for your work—it has been invaluable to us on many projects. However, we're currently unable to get it to work with LexisNexis data, whether using RTF files in German or English. We've adjusted the start_keywords and other parameters, but it seems like Lexis may have changed the entire architecture again. I wanted to check if you or anyone else is experiencing similar issues.

Thank you so much for your help!

[vestedinterests]

For future reference: Using Lexis Nexis Uni (with the web interface set to English so I don't need to adjust end-of-document keywords) with the option of collecting all results in one Word document still works for me with LexisNexisTools.

[informatikathi]

First and foremost: Johannes, thank you so much for this great package which I have used to teach newspaper analysis to undergraduate students.

It seems like LexisNexis has changed its output format in the last few months. Apparently some of the text elements that lnt_read() needs for parsing are missing so that the function cannot read in the files. While old .DOCX are still readable, more recently downloaded files lead to this error:
In open.connection(x, "rb") : cannot open zip file 'abc.DOCX'

Have others come across this issue, or do you know how to solve it?
Thanks in advance.

[A-Scherrer]

I get a similar error when running my old script with more recently downloaded LexisNexis .docx files:

Fehler in lnt_parse_uni(lines = lines$uni, extract_paragraphs = extract_paragraphs, :
No articles found to parse.

[JBGruber]

Would someone in this thread be willing to send me some examples that do not work? I do not have access to nexis in my new job any more, but I'm happy to invest an hour or two to see if I can make the package functional with the new version again. (email is in my profile)

[A-Scherrer]

Thank you @JBGruber ! I have sent you an email.