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RNewsflow (version 1.0.1)

Tools for Analyzing Content Homogeneity and News Diffusion using Computational Text Analysis

Description

A collection of tools for measuring the similarity of news content and tracing the flow of (news) messages over time and across media.

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install.packages('RNewsflow')

Monthly Downloads

660

Version

1.0.1

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Kasper Welbers

Last Published

March 29th, 2016

Functions in RNewsflow (1.0.1)

document.network.plot

Visualize (a subcomponent) of the document similarity network
documents.compare

Compare the documents in two corpora/dtms
meta

Meta information for one news agency, and the print and online editions of two newspapers
delete.duplicates

Delete duplicate (or similar) documents from a document term matrix
document.network

Create a document similarity network
filter.window

Filter edges from the document similarity network based on hour difference
term.day.dist

Calculate statistics for term occurence across days
only.first.match

Transform document network so that each document only matches the earliest dated matching document
docnet

Document similarity network for one news agency, and the print and online editions of two newspapers
network.aggregate

Aggregate the edges of a network by vertex attributes
directed.network.plot

A wrapper for plot.igraph for visualizing directed networks.
newsflow.compare

Compare the documents in a dtm with a sliding window over time
dtm

Document Term Matrix for one news agency, and the print and online editions of two newspapers
show.window

Show time window of document pairs