[BlindRUG] Is there any substitution for word count add in?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Actually, here's a workaround.  These two functions uses the internals
of wordcountaddin and returns summaries as Markdown tables (that's the
best I could do; it seems hard to grab the underlying data frame).

text_stats_md <- function(text) {
  text <- paste(text, collapse="\n")
  wordcountaddin:::text_stats_fn(text)
}

readability_md <- function(text) {
  text <- paste(text, collapse="\n")
  wordcountaddin:::readability_fn(text)
}

Here's an example using the text_stats_md function:

> text <- readLines("https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/README")
> text_stats_md(text)

|Method          |koRpus      |stringi       |
|:---------------|:-----------|:-------------|
|Word count      |668         |649           |
|Character count |4131        |4130          |
|Sentence count  |46          |Not available |
|Reading time    |3.3 minutes |3.2 minutes   |

I hope this helps (but I think you should still post a feature request)

/Henrik

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just had a quick check at the code of the wordcountaddin package to
> see if there're some internal functions that could be used to collect
> the stats from a plain string.  Unfortunately, the code is hardwired
> to assume you're using it in RStudio.
>
> However, it doesn't look too hard to tweak such that the package could
> also provide a plain R API returning data frames of summaries given a
> plain string as input.  Looking at the internal code, that is
> basically what the package does with its functions.  For example, it
> could provide an API something like:
>
>> text_stats_df(text)
>> readability_df(text)
>
> I suggest that you post a feature request at
> https://github.com/benmarwick/wordcountaddin/issues explaining your
> needs.  Hopefully, he'll add it.  I can see it could be very useful
> for lots of people.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Henrik
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:39 AM, JooYoung Seo via BlindRUG
> <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>                 Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>>                 I found that there is word count add in for R Studio
>> retrieved from https://github.com/benmarwick/wordcountaddin
>>
>>
>>
>>                 Unfortunately, it appears to be dependent of R Studio.
>>
>>
>>
>>                 Is there any trick to use it in R terminal?
>>
>>                 Or, is there any similar package to get word count
>> accessible for R Terminal?
>>
>>
>>
>>                 Any help would be so much appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>                 Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>>                 JooYoung
>>
>>
>>
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