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 reference:

Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2021). Het raadsel literatuur. Is literaire kwaliteit meetbaar? 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(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 (2021). Het raadsel literatuur. Is literaire kwaliteit meetbaar? Amsterdam University Press.

Karina van Dalen-Oskam (2015). Prehistory of The Riddle. (‘The Riddle of Literary Quality: The search for conventions of literariness’, transl. of: The Riddle of Literary Quality. Op zoek naar conventies van literariteit’ and was published in: Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 32** (2014), 3, p. 25-33.), https://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/?p=537.

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