{poldis} provides text data and tools for analysing on political
discourses in time with R.
Political discourse data comes in many types. While it is easier to
analyse data from official speeches, where there is one speaker with
other available R packages, this only tells a portion of the story of
what, how, and where politics gets done. For most other settings in
which political discourse appears as debates, interviews, news
conferences, or campaign rallies, where there may be multiple speakers,
questions, languages, and other types of “noise” in text data, working
with large amounts of text programmatically becomes very tricky. For
example, large amounts of text might need to be separated by speakers,
or have questions removed for analysis, or only the context of a string
matches is wanted. It is exactly these tasks {poldis} makes it easier
for you!
A lot more is yet to come, keep your eyes open for it, but I hope the first few functions available are helpful to you!
To download the latest version of ´{poldis}´ from GitHub and use it locally:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("henriquesposito/poldis")
Lastly, if you are using ´{poldis}´, please do not forget to cite us ;)
citation("poldis")
## To cite poldis in publications use:
##
## H. Sposito. poldis: Tools for analyzing political discourse. 2021.
##
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
##
## @Manual{,
## title = {poldis: Tools for analyzing political discourse},
## author = {Henrique Sposito},
## year = {2021},
## url = {https://github.com/henriquesposito/poldis},
## }