cmu.textstat functions

from_play

This is a helper function for reading in the dialogue from Shakespeare plays and screenplays, which are formatted in very simple markup. With this function, either the dialogue or the direction can be execrated in bulk. It can also be used to extract the dialogue of specific characters.

Description

This is a helper function for reading in the dialogue from Shakespeare plays and screenplays, which are formatted in very simple markup. With this function, either the dialogue or the direction can be execrated in bulk. It can also be used to extract the dialogue of specific characters.

Usage

from_play(plays, extract = c("dialogue", "direction"))

Arguments

Argument	Description
plays	A readtext dataframe containing a doc_id column and a text column.
extract	A character vector specifying what is to be extracted like ‘dialogue’ or ‘romeo’.

Value

A readtext dataframe with the extracted text.