R: US presidential inaugural address texts

data_corpus_inaugural {quanteda} | R Documentation

## US presidential inaugural address texts

### Description

US presidential inaugural address texts, and metadata (for the corpus), from 1789 to present.

### Usage

    data_corpus_inaugural

### Format

a corpus object with the following docvars:

- `Year` a four-digit integer year

- `President` character; President's last name

- `FirstName` character; President's first name (and possibly middle initial)

- `Party` factor; name of the President's political party

### Details

`data_corpus_inaugural` is the quanteda-package corpus object of US presidents' inaugural addresses since 1789. Document variables contain the year of the address and the last name of the president.

### Source

https://archive.org/details/Inaugural-Address-Corpus-1789-2009 and https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/inaugural-addresses.

### Examples

    # some operations on the inaugural corpus
    summary(data_corpus_inaugural)
    head(docvars(data_corpus_inaugural), 10)

[Package quanteda version 3.0.0 Index]