wals.feature

A character vector that define with a feature ids from WALS (e. g. "1a", "21b").

features

Logical. If TRUE function removes all languages not available in lingtypology database. By default is TRUE.

na.rm

This function downloads data from WALS (<a href="https://wals.info/">https://wals.info/</a>) and changes language names to the names from lingtypology database. You need the internet connection.

Provides R with the Glottolog database <https://glottolog.org/> and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic mapping. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project <https://clld.org/>, which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages <https://docs.ropensci.org/lingtypology/> and package vignette. Maps created by this package can be used both for the investigation and linguistic teaching. In addition, package provides an ability to download data from typological databases such as WALS, AUTOTYP and some others and to create your own database website.

George Moroz

lingtypology

Linguistic Typology and Mapping

Kirill Koncha

Mikhail Leonov

Anna Smirnova

wals.feature function

This function downloads data from WALS (<a href='https://wals.info/'>https://wals.info/</a>) and changes language names to the names from lingtypology database. You need the internet connection.

wals.feature: Download WALS data

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