How to download the text of a novel from Project Gutenberg with R

gutenberg_download.R

library(gutenbergr)
library(stringr)

# search for the EXACT name of the novel title
gutenberg_works(title=='Dracula')

# search for the EXACT author's name (Last Name, First Name)
gutenberg_works(author=='Stoker, Bram')

# search for the word 'Frankenstein' in the title column
gutenberg_works(str_detect(title, 'Frankenstein'))

# search for part of an author's name
gutenberg_works(str_detect(author, 'Stevenson'))


# Once you have searched and found the novel you want, make note of the gutenberg_id field
# Downloading Dracula (gutenberg_id = 345
dracula<-gutenberg_download(345)