SherlockHolmes

1.0.2

Building a Concordance of Terms in a Series of Texts

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Overview

About

Maintained by Barry ZeebergFirst published 2023-03-273 releasesCRAN page ↗

Compute the frequency distribution of a search term in a series of texts. For example, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a total of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, comprised of 54 short stories and 4 longer novels. I wanted to test my own subjective impression that, in many of the stories, Sherlock Holmes' popularity was used as bait to induce the reader to read a story that is essentially not primarily a Sherlock Holmes story. I used the term "Holmes" as a search pattern, since Watson would frequently address him by name, or use his name to describe something that he was doing. My hypothesis is that the frequency distribution of the search pattern "Holmes" is a good proxy for the degree to which a story is or is not truly a Sherlock Holmes story. The results are presented in a manuscript that is available as a vignette and online at https://barryzee.github.io/Concordance/index.html.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("SherlockHolmes", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-sherlockholmes

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-SherlockHolmes

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

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Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

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12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.2.0

Imports (13)

qpdf stringr dpseg plotrix zoo stargazerutilsgraphicsgrDevicesstatstextBoxPlacement plot.matrix devtools

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Barry Zeeberg

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-27
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 290 KB / 12 files
Download size: 3.7 MB
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