ICS02: 8. Introduction to R

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Spring 2019

Session 8. Introduction to programming through R

Thursday Feb 28, 16:00 UK = 18:00 EET

Convenors: Christopher Ohge & Gabriel Bodard(University of London)

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Session outline

This session will introduce will introduce basic programming concepts with the R language. After an introductory lesson on regular expressions, R syntax, and basic R functions, we will use the tidy text library package to perform text analysis tasks.

Seminar readings

• (two open access papers)

Further reading

• Rydberg-Cox, Jeff. Statistical Methods for Studying Literature in R. Available: https://daedalus.umkc.edu/StatisticalMethods/index.html
• Silge, Julia, and David Robinson. Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach. Available: https://www.tidytextmining.com/. Especially chapters 1–3.
• Jockers, Matthew. Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature (Springer, 2014). Especially Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, and 11

Essay title

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Exercise

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