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summary.corpus

Summarize a corpus

Description

Displays information about a corpus, including attributes and metadata such as date of number of texts, creation and source.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'corpus'
summary(object, n = 100, tolower = FALSE, showmeta = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

`object`	corpus to be summarized
`n`	maximum number of texts to describe, default=100
`tolower`	convert texts to lower case before counting types
`showmeta`	set to `TRUE` to include document-level meta-data
`...`	additional arguments passed through to `tokens()`

Examples

summary(data_corpus_inaugural)
summary(data_corpus_inaugural, n = 10)
corp <- corpus(data_char_ukimmig2010,
               docvars = data.frame(party=names(data_char_ukimmig2010)))
summary(corp, showmeta = TRUE) # show the meta-data
sumcorp <- summary(corp) # (quietly) assign the results
sumcorp$Types / sumcorp$Tokens # crude type-token ratio

quanteda

Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

v3.0.0

GPL-3

Authors

Kenneth Benoit [cre, aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-564X>), Kohei Watanabe [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-5265>), Haiyan Wang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-4311>), Paul Nulty [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7214-4666>), Adam Obeng [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2906-4775>), Stefan Müller [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-4125>), Akitaka Matsuo [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3323-6330>), William Lowe [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1549-6163>), Christian Müller [ctb], European Research Council [fnd] (ERC-2011-StG 283794-QUANTESS)

Initial release