The goal of sherlock is to provide access to the full texts of Sherlock Holmes stories that are in the public domain. Text and further information regarding copyright laws can be found here.
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EmilHvitfeldt/sherlock")The data set is available as holmes
library(sherlock)
holmes
#> # A tibble: 65,958 × 2
#> text book
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 "A STUDY IN SCARLET" A Study In Scarlet
#> 2 "" A Study In Scarlet
#> 3 "Table of contents" A Study In Scarlet
#> 4 "" A Study In Scarlet
#> 5 "Part I" A Study In Scarlet
#> 6 "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" A Study In Scarlet
#> 7 "The Science Of Deduction" A Study In Scarlet
#> 8 "The Lauriston Garden Mystery" A Study In Scarlet
#> 9 "What John Rance Had To Tell" A Study In Scarlet
#> 10 "Our Advertisement Brings A Visitor" A Study In Scarlet
#> # … with 65,948 more rowsand is named in such a way that sherlock::holmes can be called
sherlock::holmes
#> # A tibble: 65,958 × 2
#> text book
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 "A STUDY IN SCARLET" A Study In Scarlet
#> 2 "" A Study In Scarlet
#> 3 "Table of contents" A Study In Scarlet
#> 4 "" A Study In Scarlet
#> 5 "Part I" A Study In Scarlet
#> 6 "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" A Study In Scarlet
#> 7 "The Science Of Deduction" A Study In Scarlet
#> 8 "The Lauriston Garden Mystery" A Study In Scarlet
#> 9 "What John Rance Had To Tell" A Study In Scarlet
#> 10 "Our Advertisement Brings A Visitor" A Study In Scarlet
#> # … with 65,948 more rows