flesch.kincaid: Readability: Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

In koRpus: Text Analysis with Emphasis on POS Tagging, Readability, and Lexical Diversity

Description

This is just a convenient wrapper function for readability.

Usage

flesch.kincaid(
  txt.file,
  hyphen = NULL,
  parameters = c(asl = 0.39, asw = 11.8, const = 15.59),
  ...
)

Arguments

txt.file	Either an object of class kRp.text, a character vector which must be be a valid path to a file containing the text to be analyzed, or a list of text features. If the latter, calculation is done by readability.num.
hyphen	An object of class kRp.hyphen. If NULL, the text will be hyphenated automatically.
parameters	A numeric vector with named magic numbers, defining the relevant parameters for the index.
...	Further valid options for the main function, see readability for details.

Details

Calculates the Flesch-Kincaid grade level. In contrast to readability, which by default calculates all possible indices, this function will only calculate the index value.

Value

An object of class kRp.readability.

Examples

## Not run: 
flesch.kincaid(tagged.text)

## End(Not run)

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