Introduction to Text Analysis Using RA Two-Day tutorial

Kenneth Benoit, Department of Methodology, LSE

Date: Updated for Week commencing 24 April 2017 quanteda version: 0.9.9.50 (CRAN)

This repository contains the workshop materials for a one-day version of a workshop [Introduction to Text Analysis Using R](link here) taught by Kenneth Benoit. This workshop and the materials it contains are funded by by the European Research Council grant ERC-2011-StG 283794-QUANTESS: Quantitative Analysis of Text for Social Science.

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