Dataset and Tools to Research the Riddle of Literary Quality.
litRiddle: R package for exploring literary quality
Authors: Maciej Eder, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Joris van Zundert, Saskia Lensink
License:GPL-3
This is an R package being a part of the Riddle of Literary Quality project.
The package contains the data of a reader survey about fiction in Dutch, a description of the novels the readers rated, and the results of stylistic measurements of the novels. The package also contains functions to combine, analyze, and visualize these data.
See: https://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/ for further details. Information in Dutch about the package can be found at https://karinavdo.github.io/RaadselLiteratuur/02_07_data_en_R_package.html.
If you use litRiddle in your academic publications, please consider citing the following references:
Maciej Eder, Lensink, S., Van Zundert, J.J., and Van Dalen-Oskam, K.H. (2022). “Replicating The Riddle of Literary Quality: The LitRiddle Package for R.” In Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts, 636–637. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo / DH2022 Local Organizing Committee. https://dh2022.dhii.asia/abstracts/163.
Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2023). The Riddle of Literary Quality: A Computational Approach. Amsterdam University Press.
Installation
Install the package from the CRAN repository:
install.packages("litRiddle")
Alternatively, try installing it directly from the current GitHub repository:
library(devtools)
install_github("karinavdo/LitRiddleData", build_vignettes = TRUE)
Usage
The package is complemented with a concise vignette, which can be accessed via:
vignette("litRiddle")
This document will briefly guide the users through the functions of the package, but please expect some rough edges: the document will be revised in the future. A comprehensive yet rather low-level documentation of the package is provided – obviously – via the generic help() function in R. Try typing e.g.:
help(books)
help(respondents)
help(reviews)
help(frequencies)
help(motivations)
help(motivations.text)
help(combine.all)
help(explain)
help(find.dataset)
help(get.columns)
help(make.table)
help(make.table2)
help(order.responses)
help(litRiddle) # for the general description of the package
Each function of the package, as well as each dataset, is supplemented by a help page.
A concise description of the package's functionalities (in Dutch) is also provided here: https://karinavdo.github.io/RaadselLiteratuur/02_07_data_en_R_package.html.
General info
Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2023). The Riddle of Literary Quality: A Computational Approach. Amsterdam University Press.
Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2021). Het raadsel literatuur. Is literaire kwaliteit meetbaar? Amsterdam University Press.
Maciej Eder, Saskia Lensink, Joris van Zundert, Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2022). “Replicating The Riddle of Literary Quality: The litRiddle package for R”, in: Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts. The University of Tokyo, Japan, 25–29 July 2022, p. 636-637 https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf
Corina Koolen, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Erica Nagelhout (2020). Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey. Poetics 79: 101439, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439.
More publications can be found at https://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/?page_id=588