knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
corporaexplorer can be used to explore not only chronological text collections with document date as main organising principle, but any collection of texts. The example used here: Jane Austen's six novels, accessed through the janeaustenr package.
To run the Jane Austen demo app, run the following in the R console:
library(corporaexplorer) run_janeausten_app()
This app is created with the code below.
library(janeaustenr) library(dplyr) library(stringr) library(tidyr) library(corporaexplorer)
books <- austen_books()
# Regular expression to identify where new chapters begin chapter_regex <- "((Chapter|CHAPTER|VOLUME) (\\d+|[IXVL])+)" # Pre-processing books <- books %>% dplyr::group_by(book) %>% # Each book into one long string: dplyr::summarise(Text = paste(text, collapse = " "), .groups = "drop_last") %>% # Insert placeholder at beginning of each chapter mutate(Text = str_replace_all(Text, chapter_regex, "NEW_CHAPTER\\1")) %>% # Replace double space with two newlines (to restore structure of the text): mutate(Text = stringr::str_replace_all(Text, " ", "\n\n")) %>% # Split each book into a character vector (one element is one chapter): mutate(Text = stringi::stri_split_regex(Text, "NEW_CHAPTER")) %>% # Remove first element (book title), so the books start with Chapter 1 mutate(Text = lapply(Text, function(x) x[-1])) # The result is a data frame with one row for each book. # The "Text" column is a list of character vectors # The "book" column is the name of the book # From one row per book to one row per chapter books <- tidyr::unnest(books, Text)
When we first have a data frame with text and metadata (in this case just book title), creating a "corporaexplorerobject" for exploration is very simple:
# As this is a corpus which is not organised by date, # we set `date_based_corpus` to `FALSE`. # Because we want to organise our exploration around Jane Austen's books, # we pass `"book"` to the `grouping_variable` argument. jane_austen <- prepare_data( dataset = books, date_based_corpus = FALSE, grouping_variable = "book" )
explore(jane_austen)
Example: "death" in Jane Austen's books:
knitr::include_graphics("../man/figures/austen_death.png")
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