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.

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 Dec. 2, 2019, 6:25 p.m.