TreeTagger in R - r

Question

I have downloaded TreeTaggerv3.2 for Windows and have configured it per the install.txt. I am trying to use it in R with koRpus package. I have set the kRp.env as -
set.kRp.env(TT.cmd="C:\\TreeTagger\\bin\\tag-english.bat", lang="en",
preset="en", treetagger="manual", format="file",
TT.tknz=TRUE, encoding="UTF-8" )
.My data to be tagged is in a file and trying to use it as treetag("myfile.txt") but it is throwing the error-
Error in matrix(unlist(strsplit(tagged.text, "\t")), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE, :
'data' must be of a vector type, was 'NULL'
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c C:\TreeTagger\bin\tag-english.bat
C:\Users\vivsingh\Desktop\NLP\tree_tag_ex.txt' had status 255
The standalone TreeTagger is working on by windows.Any idea on how it works?

Answer 1

I had the exact same error and warning while trying lemmatization on R word vector following Bernhard Learns blog using windows 7 and R 3.4.1 (x64). The issue was also appearing using textstem package but TreeTagger was running properly in cmd window.
I mixed several answers I found on this post and here is my steps and code running properly:
get into R win_library (~\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\rJava\jri\x64\jri.dll) and copy jri.dll (thanks kravi!) to replace it the parent folder.
close and restart R
library(koRpus)
set.kRp.env(TT.cmd="C:\\TreeTagger\\bin\\tag-english.bat", lang="en", preset="en", treetagger="manual", format="file", TT.tknz=TRUE, encoding="UTF-8")
lemma_tagged <- treetag(lemma_unique$word_clean, treetagger="manual", format="obj", TT.tknz=FALSE , lang="en", TT.options=list(path="c:/TreeTagger", preset="en"))
lemma_tagged_tbl <- tbl_df(lemma_tagged#TT.res)
Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I am posting this answer to keep a record. I also faced the same issue due to incorrect specification of the location of jri.dll on 64-Bit processor and windows 8.1. If we call
set.kRp.env(TT.cmd="manual", lang="en", TT.options=list(path="/path/to/tree-tagger-windows-x.x/TreeTagger", preset="en")) and we follow either of following two steps, we can resolve this error:
While installing R, if we install only 64 Bit version of R, and
specify the proper path for these variables
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /path/to/rJava/jri
JAVA_HOME = /path/to/jdk1.x.x
java.library.path = /path/to/rJava/jri/jri.dll
CLASSPATH = /path/to/rJava/jri
If we already installed both versions viz. 32 bit and 64 bit of R on your computer then just copy jri.dll from /path/to/rJava/jri/x64/jri.dll and replace at path/to/rJava/jri/jri.dll. Further, we need to set the path of above mentioned four variables.

Answer 3

I've got this issue (very similar I guess) and posted query to GitHub.
https://github.com/unDocUMeantIt/koRpus/issues/7
The current working solution for me for this case was easier than I could expect, just downgrading the koRpus package. This can change with time but this version should remain appropriate.
library("devtools")
install_github("unDocUMeantIt/koRpus", ref="0.06-5")
This package is not Java related they said.

Answer 4

You can face the same error while setting up the korpus environment and getting the result from treetagger. For example, when you use:
tagged.text <- treetag(
"C:/temp/sample_text.txt",
treetagger = "manual",
lang = "en",
TT.options = list(
path = "c:/Treetagger",
preset = "en"
),
doc_id = "sample"
)
You would receive a similar error
Error: Awww, this should not happen: TreeTagger didn't return any useful data.
This can happen if the local TreeTagger setup is incomplete or different from what presets expected.
You should re-run your command with the option 'debug=TRUE'. That will print all relevant configuration.
Look for a line starting with 'sys.tt.call:' and try to execute the full command following it in a command line terminal. Do not close this R session in the meantime, as 'debug=TRUE' will keep temporary files that might be needed.
If running the command after 'sys.tt.call:' does fail, you'll need to fix the TreeTagger setup.
If it does not fail but produce a table with proper results, please contact the author!
Here you need to change the value of treetagger, from
treetagger = "manual"
to
treetagger = "kRp.env"
However, before that remember to set the kRp.env as #Xochitl C. suggested in their answer
set.kRp.env(TT.cmd="C:\\TreeTagger\\bin\\tag-english.bat", lang="en", preset="en", treetagger="manual", format="file", TT.tknz=TRUE, encoding="UTF-8")
Once you do this, you'll get the desired result.