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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