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##birdnik

An R connector to the Wordnik API

Author: Oliver Keyes License: MIT Status: Stable

Description

Wordnik is a service that provides English-language words, their definitions, pronounciations, and a whole host of other nifty data like frequency of use in literature and parts-of-speech data. birdnik is a connector to that service.

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Why birdnik?

Because as every millenial knows, the bird and word are interchangeable.

Installation

The stable, CRAN-ready version can be retrieved with:

install.packages("birdnik")

The latest version can be obtained via:

devtools::install_github("ironholds/birdnik")

Dependencies

  • R
  • httr

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install.packages('birdnik')

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Version

0.1.1

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Last Published

May 27th, 2018

Functions in birdnik (0.1.1)

word_definitions

Retrieve definitions of a word
word_frequency

Count the per-year frequency of words
birdnik

Connector to the Wordnik API
get_pos

Extract components from word metadata
related_words

Retrieve related words
word_bigrams

Retrieve word bigrams
word_pronunciations

Retrieve Pronunciations for Words
word_top_example

Retrieve a Word's Top Example