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gkchestertonr

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An R Package for a selection of G.K. Chesterton's books

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

(Heretics)

This package provides access to the full texts of a selection of G.K. Chesterton's published books. The UTF-8 plain text for each novel was sourced from Project Gutenberg, processed a bit, and is ready for text analysis. Each text is in a character vector with elements of about 70 characters. The package contains:

There is also a function chesterton_books() that returns a tidy data frame of all selected novels.

Installation

You can install the development version from Github:

library(devtools)
install_github("bigpas/gkchestertonr")
library(gkchestertonr)


bigpas/gkchestertonr documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:05 a.m.