quanteda (version 0.9.7-17)

inaugCorpus: A corpus of US presidential inaugural addresses from 1789-2013

Description

inaugCorpus is the quanteda-package corpus object of US presidents' inaugural addresses since 1789. Document variables contain the year of the address and the last name of the president.

inaugTexts is the character vector of US presidential inaugaration speeches

References

https://archive.org/details/Inaugural-Address-Corpus-1789-2009 and http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/inaugurals.php.

Examples

# some operations on the inaugural corpus
summary(inaugCorpus)
head(docvars(inaugCorpus), 10)
# working with the character vector only
str(inaugTexts)
head(docvars(inaugCorpus), 10)
mycorpus <- corpus(inaugTexts)