Dickens' Frequency Data (zipfR)

Description

Objects of classes spc and vgc that contain frequency data for a collection of Dickens's works from Project Gutenberg, and for 3 novels (Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friends).

Details

Dickens.spc has a frequency spectrum derived from a collection of Dickens' works downloaded from the Gutenberg archive (A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Master Humphrey's Clock, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, Sketches by BOZ, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Three Ghost Stories). Dickens.emp.vgc contains the corresponding observed vocabulary growth (V and V(1)).

DickensOliverTwist.spc and DickensOliverTwist.emp.vgc contain spectrum and observed growth curve (V and V(1) of the early novel Oliver Twist (1837-1839).

DickensGreatExpectations.spc and DickensGreatExpectations.emp.vgc contain spectrum and observed growth curve (V and V(1)) of the late novel Great Expectations (1860-1861).

DickensOurMutualFriend.spc and DickensOurMutualFriend.emp.vgc contain spectrum and observed growth curve (V and V(1)) of Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Dickens (1864-1865).

Notice that we removed numbers and other forms of non-linguistic material before collecting the frequency data.

References

Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Charles Dickens on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

Examples

  data(Dickens.spc)
  summary(Dickens.spc)

  data(Dickens.emp.vgc)
  summary(Dickens.emp.vgc)

  data(DickensOliverTwist.spc)
  summary(DickensOliverTwist.spc)

  data(DickensOliverTwist.emp.vgc)
  summary(DickensOliverTwist.emp.vgc)

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