Basic Character Statistics

Source: R/figures.R

This function extracts character statistics from a drama object.

characterStatistics(drama, normalize = FALSE, segment = c("Drama",
  "Act", "Scene"), filterPunctuation = FALSE)

Arguments

drama

A QDDrama object
normalize

Normalizing the individual columns
segment

"Drama", "Act", or "Scene". Allows calculating statistics on segments of the play
filterPunctuation

Whether to exclude all punctuation from token counts

Value

A data frame with the additional classes QDCharacterStatistics and QDHasCharacter. It has following columns and one row for each character: tokens: The number of tokens spoken by that character types : The number of different tokens (= types) spoken by each character utterances: The number of utterances utteranceLengthMean: The mean length of utterances utteranceLengthSd: The standard deviation in utterance length

See also

characterNames

Examples

data(rksp.0)
stat <- characterStatistics(rksp.0)