The goal of srcquantcourse is to provide sample analysis, replication scripts and exercises for the data analysis module of the SRC Quantitative Methods PhD Course; this part of the module concentrates on probabilistic topic modelling.
Installation
You can install the development version of srcquantcourse from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sdaume/srcquantcourse")Alternatively, clone this repo (https://github.com/sdaume/srcquantcourse) in order to work on and modify the scripts.
License, credits and acknowledgements
The package is shared under an MIT License.
The package relies on several other R packages that are listed in the package DESCRIPTION and accompanying scripts. The work of these packages’ authors is hereby gratefully acknowledged.
To illustrate the methods covered in this package preprint meta-data from bioRxiv and medRxiv has been used. Those preprint servers provide API access to preprints which is explicitly intended to support text mining; this is hereby gratefully acknowledged. The actual preprints cannot be shared in this package, but scripts utilizing the medrxivr package are provided to obtain the preprint data and replicate the results.
This package has been developed to support education and research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre; the research has benefited from funding by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas).