nzilbb.labbcat (version 1.5-1)

countAnnotations: Gets the number of annotations on the given layer of the given transcript

Description

Returns the number of annotations on the given layer of the given transcript.

Usage

countAnnotations(labbcat.url, id, layer.id, max.ordinal = NULL)

Value

The number of annotations on that layer

Arguments

labbcat.url

URL to the LaBB-CAT instance

id

A transcript ID (i.e. transcript name)

layer.id

A layer ID

max.ordinal

The maximum ordinal for the counted annotations. e.g. a max.ordinal of 1 will ensure that only the first annotation for each parent is returned. If max.ordinal is null, then all annotations are counted, regardless of their ordinal.

See Also

• getTranscriptIds

• getTranscriptIdsInCorpus

• getTranscriptIdsWithParticipant

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Count the number of words in UC427_ViktoriaPapp_A_ENG.eaf
token.count <- countAnnotations(labbcat.url, "UC427_ViktoriaPapp_A_ENG.eaf", "orthography")
}