The goal of dhtk is to provide a collection of functions meant to ease general DH work. It is meant to be used along side various other text mining/ corpus linguistics tools, and to make using these other tools easier and more expedient. The packages it is intended to work along side at the moment include:
You can install dhtk from Github using devtools:
devtools::install_github("Jpowell94/dhtk")
If you are installing on a linux distribution, there are a couple of system libraries you are going to need. Using your package manager(The example assumes you are using a debian-based distro), install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev libxml2-dev pandoc
dhtk allows you to work smarter. Make use of already existing tools in your DH projects with ease and by writing fewer lines of code to get your results.
library(dhtk)
## basic example code
What is special about using README.Rmd instead of just README.md?
You can include R chunks like so:
summary(cars)
#> speed dist
#> Min. : 4.0 Min. : 2.00
#> 1st Qu.:12.0 1st Qu.: 26.00
#> Median :15.0 Median : 36.00
#> Mean :15.4 Mean : 42.98
#> 3rd Qu.:19.0 3rd Qu.: 56.00
#> Max. :25.0 Max. :120.00
You’ll still need to render README.Rmd regularly, to keep README.md
up-to-date.
You can also embed plots, for example:
In that case, don’t forget to commit and push the resulting figure files, so they display on GitHub!