R: Summarize a corpus

summary.corpus {quanteda} | R Documentation

## Summarize a corpus

### Description

Displays information about a corpus, including attributes and metadata such as date of number of texts, creation and source.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'corpus'
    summary(object, n = 100, tolower = FALSE, showmeta = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | corpus to be summarized
`n` | maximum number of texts to describe, default=100
`tolower` | convert texts to lower case before counting types
`showmeta` | set to `TRUE` to include document-level meta-data
`...` | additional arguments passed through to `tokens()`

### Examples

    summary(data_corpus_inaugural)
    summary(data_corpus_inaugural, n = 10)
    corp <- corpus(data_char_ukimmig2010,
                   docvars = data.frame(party=names(data_char_ukimmig2010)))
    summary(corp, showmeta = TRUE) # show the meta-data
    sumcorp <- summary(corp) # (quietly) assign the results
    sumcorp$Types / sumcorp$Tokens # crude type-token ratio

[Package quanteda version 3.0.0 Index]