Dataset and functions to explore quality of literary novels. The package is a part of the Riddle of Literary Quality project, and it 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. For more details, see: Eder M, van Zundert J, Lensink S, van Dalen-Oskam K (2022). Replicating The Riddle of Literary Quality: The litRiddle package for R. In _Digital Humanities 2022: Conference Abstracts_, 636-637.
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.
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)
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.
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