hcandersenr

An R Package for H.C. Andersens fairy tales

This package contains (most) the complete texts of 157 fairy tales of H.C. Andersen, in a number of different languages. formatted to be convenient for text analysis. Where each text is formatted to elements of about 80 characters. The package contains:

• hcandersen_da: 138 out of the 157 Fairy tales in Danish
• hcandersen_de: 150 out of the 157 Fairy tales in German
• hcandersen_en: 156 out of the 157 Fairy tales in English
• hcandersen_es: 154 out of the 157 Fairy tales in Spanish
• hcandersen_fr: 58 out of the 157 Fairy tales in French
• EK: dataframe with ID, names and publishing dates
• hca_fairytales: Complete collection of all fairytales in this package

Avaliable fairytales

library(hcandersenr)
library(tidyverse)
hca_fairytales() %>% 
  select(book, language) %>% 
  unique() %>% 
  mutate(langauge = fct_relevel(language, c("English", "Spanish", "German", "Danish", "French"))) %>%
  ggplot(aes(langauge, book)) + 
  geom_raster(alpha = 0.3) +
  scale_x_discrete(position = "top")

Installation

To install the development version from Github:

library(devtools)
install_github("EmilHvitfeldt/hcandersenr")
library(hcandersenr)