zipf.fnc: Zipf's rank frequency distribution

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Zipf's rank frequency distribution

Description

This function calculates Zipf's rank-frequency distribution for a text vector, and optionally produces the rank-frequency plot.

Usage

zipf.fnc(text, plot = FALSE)

Arguments

text	A character vector containing a text.
plot	Logical, if TRUE, a rank-frequency plot is shown on the graphics device.

Value

A data frame with variables

frequency	Word Frequencies, ordered from large to small.
freqOfFreq	Frequencies of word frequencies.
rank	Zipf rank.

Author(s)

R. H. Baayen

References

Zipf, G. K. (1935) The Psycho-Biology of Language, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Zipf, G. K. (1949) Human Behavior and the Principle of the Least Effort. An Introduction to Human Ecology, New York: Hafner.

Baayen, R. H. (2001) Word Frequency Distributions, Dordrecht: Kluwer.

See Also

See also growth.fnc.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(alice)
alice.zipf = zipf.fnc(alice, plot = TRUE) 
head(alice.zipf)

## End(Not run)

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