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Hacking Moby-Dick, Week 8 (5 June)

Week 8 Discussion

First, a demo on using R to create a lexical dispersion plot based on the sentiment words of Moby-Dick.

Enter the R markdown document on lexical dispersion plots.

Another R demo: build a key-word-in-context search.

Enter the R markdown document on key word searches.

More about R

To learn more about R, I would suggest starting with this helpful tutorial by Jeff Rydberg-Cox.

Then I would work through Matthew Jockers’s Text Analysis in R for Students of Literature (2014).

Finally, the R WikiBook and R home page are loaded with good information.