This app enables interactive exploration of the Pathways Corpus for studying the political representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin. It includes parliamentary written questions from democracies of eight European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
You can download and install the latest development version of the app
with the devtools package by running
devtools::install_github('cschwem2er/pathways').
For Windows users installing from github requires proper setup of Rtools.
At the moment, pathways is not yet available on CRAN, but a submission is being prepared.
This package includes all datasets of the Pathways Corpus:
| name | country | term |
|---|---|---|
| be | Belgium | 2010-2014 |
| de | Germany | 2009-2013 |
| el | Greece | 2015 |
| es | Spain | 2011-2015 |
| fr | France | 2007-2012 |
| it | Italy | 2008-2013 |
| nl | Netherlands | 2010-2012 |
| uk | United Kingdom | 2010-2015 |
After loading the pathways package you can launch the shiny app in your browser to explore the corpus:
library(pathways)
corpus_explorer()
The app can be used to filter corpora by several attributes and for visualizing high frequency / high keyness terms:
A reference for the Pathways Corpus is currently in preparation. For now, please cite the following reference if you use this package for your publications:
Carsten Schwemmer (2019). pathways: A 'Shiny' Application for Exploring the Pathways Corpus. R package version 1.0.2.
https://github.com/cschwem2er/pathways