{lovecraftr}

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

-H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

{lovecraftr} contains H. P. Lovecraft’s corpus as R datasets for textual analysis. This repository contains both the raw text files and RDA files. See the package index reference for the list of available works.

Installation

Install from GitHub using any of the methods below.

{devtools}

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jrdnbradford/lovecraftr")

{remotes}

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jrdnbradford/lovecraftr")

{pak}

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install("jrdnbradford/lovecraftr")

Usage

See the package index reference for documentation on works and usage.

Once the package is loaded, character vectors of individual works can be accessed in several ways.

You can load a dataset into the environment directly using:

data(the_call_of_cthulhu)

You can also assign a dataset to a variable:

corpus <- lovecraft

corpus |>
  dplyr::filter(title == "The Call of Cthulhu") |>
  head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#>   title               text                                                      
#>   <chr>               <chr>                                                     
#> 1 The Call of Cthulhu "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"                                     
#> 2 The Call of Cthulhu ""                                                        
#> 3 The Call of Cthulhu "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably …
#> 4 The Call of Cthulhu "of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manif…
#> 5 The Call of Cthulhu "shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of…
#> 6 The Call of Cthulhu "humanity...forms of which poetry and legend alone have c…

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.md.

Citation

Please cite this package if you use it.

citation("lovecraftr")
#> To cite package 'lovecraftr' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Bradford J (2024). _lovecraftr: H. P. Lovecraft's works, for text
#>   analysis_. <https://github.com/jrdnbradford/lovecraftr/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {lovecraftr: H. P. Lovecraft's works, for text analysis},
#>     author = {Jordan Bradford},
#>     year = {2024},
#>     url = {https://github.com/jrdnbradford/lovecraftr/},
#>   }