DramaAnalysis with R

This package contains a number of functions to support the analysis of dramatic texts.

Features

• Summary statistics about the number of words and utterances per character
• Statistics about word use from a dictionary per character
• Support for stylometric analyses by character or text
• Generation of a report for a dramatic text
• Reads in preprocessed texts

Example

# loads a specific, pre-packaged play
data(rksp.0)

# calculates standard stats about a character
charStat <- characterStatistics(rksp.0)

# fix character names
charStat <- characterNames(charStat, rksp.0)

# plot them as a bar plot
barplot(charStat)

Requirements

DramaAnalysis works on Mac OS X, Windows 10 and Linuxes, and requires R 3.3 or later.

Installation

# installation from CRAN
install.packages("DramaAnalysis")

# Install newest development version, requires devtools to be installed
devtools::install_github("quadrama/DramaAnalysis", ref="develop/3.x")

Usage and Howto

Please refer to the tutorial.