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qlcMatrix

Utility sparse matrix functions for Quantitative Language Comparison (QLC)

This R-package contains various functions that extend the functionality of the Matrix package for using sparse matrices. Some of the functions are very general, while other are highly specific for special data format as used for quantitative language comparison.

The package is available at CRAN, so normally you should just install from within R using:

install.packages("qlcMatrix")  
library(qlcMatrix)  

The version here at Github is normally slightly ahead of the CRAN version, and you can install the most up-to-date version using:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("cysouw/qlcMatrix")

Michael Cysouw cysouw@mac.com

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install.packages('qlcMatrix')

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0.9.8

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Functions in qlcMatrix (0.9.8)

sim.strings

String similarity by cosine similarity between bigram vectors
pwMatrix

Construct `part-whole' (pw) Matrices from tokenized strings
sim.nominal

Similarity-measures for nominal variables
rowMax

Row and column extremes (sparse matrices)
rSparseMatrix

Construct a random sparse matrix
splitStrings

Construct unigram and bigram matrices from a vector of strings
rKhatriRao

`reduced' Khatri-Rao product (sparse matrices)
sim.wordlist

Similarity matrices from wordlists
sim.words

Similarity-measures for words between two languages, based on co-occurrences in parallel text
qlcMatrix-package

Utility sparse matrix functions for Quantitative Language Comparison (QLC)
unfold

Unfolding of Arrays
splitWordlist

Construct sparse matrices from comparative wordlists (aka `Swadesh list')
splitText

Construct sparse matrices from parallel texts
ttMatrix

Construct a `type-token' (tt) Matrix from a vector
splitTable

Construct sparse matrices from a nominal matrix/dataframe
WALS

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)
unfoldBlockMatrix

Unfolding of block matrices (sparse matrices)
distSparse

Sparse distance matrix calculations
dimRed

Dimensionality Reduction for sparse matrices, based on Cholesky decomposition
assocSparse

Association between columns (sparse matrices)
bibles

A selection of bible-texts
corSparse

Pearson correlation between columns (sparse matrices)
cosSparse

Cosine similarity between columns (sparse matrices)
cosNominal

Associations-measures for sparsely encoded nominal variables
Array

Sparse Arrays ("Tensors")
jMatrix

Harmonize (`join') sparse matrices
huber

Comparative vocabulary for indigenous languages of Colombia (Huber & Reed 1992)