In methodds/pathways: A 'Shiny' Application for Exploring the Pathways Corpus

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This app enables interactive exploration of the Pathways Corpus for studying the political representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin. It includes parliamentary written questions from democracies of eight European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

No active maintenance

Please note that this packages is not actively maintained any longer. The datasets will be functional in the future, but the corpus explorer may not work anymore.

How to Install

You can download and install the latest development version of the app with the devtools package by running devtools::install_github('cschwem2er/pathways').

For Windows users installing from github requires proper setup of Rtools.

At the moment, pathways is not yet available on CRAN, but a submission is being prepared.

How to Use

This package includes all datasets of the Pathways Corpus:

name <- c('be', 'de', 'el', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'uk')
country <- c('Belgium', 'Germany', 'Greece', 'Spain', 'France', 'Italy', 'Netherlands', 'United Kingdom')
term <- c('2010-2014', '2009-2013', '2015', '2011-2015', '2007-2012', '2008-2013', '2010-2012', '2010-2015')
df <- data.frame(name, country, term)
knitr::kable(df)

Parliamentary written questions are stored in a data frame for each country with all textual data encoded as 'UTF-8'. Here are some questions including metadata for the German Bundestag, 2009-2013:

library(pathways)
head(de)

library(pathways)
df <- head(de, 3)

knitr::kable(df)

After loading the pathways package you can launch the shiny app in your browser to explore the corpus:

corpus_explorer()

The app can be used to filter corpora by several attributes and for visualizing high frequency / high keyness terms:

methodds/pathways documentation built on June 28, 2024, 10:37 p.m.