word_frequency
From birdnik v0.1.1
by Oliver Keyes
Count the per-year frequency of words
word_frequency provides, for a vector of words,
the number of appearances each word made per year in the source texts Wordnik
uses.
Usage
word_frequency(key, words, use_canonical = FALSE, start_year = 1800,
end_year = 2012, ...)Arguments
- key
a Wordnik API key. These can be obtained at the Wordnik developer portal.
- words
a vector of words.
- use_canonical
whether to use the stemmed, canonical form of the word (i.e. 'cat', for 'cats') instead of the actual
word. FALSE by default. Note that for pronunciations specifically, setting it to TRUE may get a wider range of pronunciations; you should experiment.- start_year
the earliest year to get frequencies for. 1800 (the earliest accepted value) by default.
- end_year
the latest year to get frequencies for. 2012 (the latest accepted value) by default.
- ...
further arguments to pass to httr's GET.
Value
a data.frame of 3 columns; word, year and frequency.
Examples
# NOT RUN {
cats_versus_dogs <- word_frequency(key = "notarealkey", words = c("cat", "dog"))
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }
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