quanteda 4.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Changes and additions

quanteda 4.0.2

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 4.0.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 4.0.0

Changes and additions

Removals

Deprecations

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 3.3.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 3.3.0

Changes and additions

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 3.2.5

Changes and additions

quanteda 3.2.4

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Fixes test failures caused by recent changes to Matrix package behaviours on some operating systems.

quanteda 3.2.3

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 3.2.2

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 3.2.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Changes and additions

quanteda 3.2

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Changes and additions

quanteda 3.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Changes and additions

Deprecations

quanteda 3.0

quanteda 3.0 is a major release that improves functionality, completes the modularisation of the package begun in v2.0, further improves function consistency by removing previously deprecated functions, and enhances workflow stability and consistency by deprecating some shortcut steps built into some functions.

Changes and additions

Deprecations

The main potentially breaking changes in version 3 relate to the deprecation or elimination of shortcut steps that allowed functions that required tokens inputs to skip the tokens creation step. We did this to require users to take more direct control of tokenization options, or to substitute the alternative tokeniser of their choice (and then coercing it to tokens via [as.tokens()]). This also allows our function behaviour to be more consistent, with each function performing a single task, rather than combining functions (such as tokenisation and constructing a matrix).

The most common example involves constructing a dfm directly from a character or corpus object. Formerly, this would construct a tokens object internally before creating the dfm, and allowed passing arguments to tokens() via .... This is now deprecated, although still functional with a warning.

We strongly encourage either creating a tokens object first, or piping the tokens return to dfm() using %>%. (See examples below.)

We have also deprecated direct character or corpus inputs to [kwic()], since this also requires a tokenised input.

The full listing of deprecations is:

Removals

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 2.1.2

Changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 2.1.1

Changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 2.1.0

Changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 2.0.1

Changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 2.0

Changes

quanteda 2.0 introduces some major changes, detailed here.

  1. New corpus object structure.

    The internals of the corpus object have been redesigned, and now are based around a character vector with meta- and system-data in attributes. These are all updated to work with the existing extractor and replacement functions. If you were using these before, then you should not even notice the change. Docvars are now handled separately from the texts, in the same way that docvars are handled for tokens objects.

  2. New metadata handling.

    Corpus-level metadata is now inserted in a user metadata list via meta() and meta<-(). metacorpus() is kept as a synonym for meta(), for backwards compatibility. Additional system-level corpus information is also recorded, but automatically when an object is created.

    Document-level metadata is deprecated, and now all document-level information is simply a “docvar”. For backward compatibility, metadoc() is kept and will insert document variables (docvars) with the name prefixed by an underscore.

  3. Corpus objects now store default summary statistics for efficiency. When these are present, summary.corpus() retrieves them rather than computing them on the fly.

  4. New index operators for core objects. The main change here is to redefine the $ operator for corpus, tokens, and dfm objects (all objects that retain docvars) to allow this operator to access single docvars by name. Some other index operators have been redefined as well, such as [.corpus returning a slice of a corpus, and [[.corpus returning the texts from a corpus.

    See the full details at https://github.com/quanteda/quanteda/wiki/indexing_core_objects.

  5. *_subset() functions.

    The subset argument now must be logical, and the select argument has been removed. (This is part of base::subset() but has never made sense, either in quanteda or base.)

  6. Return format from textstat_simil() and textstat_dist().

    Now defaults to a sparse matrix from the Matrix package, but coercion methods are provided for as.data.frame(), to make these functions return a data.frame just like the other textstat functions. Additional coercion methods are provided for as.dist(), as.simil(), and as.matrix().

  7. settings functions (and related slots and object attributes) are gone. These are now replaced by a new meta(x, type = "object") that records object-specific meta-data, including settings such as the n for tokens (to record the ngrams).

  8. All included data objects are upgraded to the new formats. This includes the three corpus objects, the single dfm data object, and the LSD 2015 dictionary object.

  9. New print methods for core objects (corpus, tokens, dfm, dictionary) now exist, each with new global options to control the number of documents shown, as well as the length of a text snippet (corpus), the tokens (tokens), dfm cells (dfm), or keys and values (dictionary). Similar to the extended printing options for dfm objects, printing of corpus objects now allows for brief summaries of the texts to be printed, and for the number of documents and the length of the previews to be controlled by new global options.

  10. All textmodels and related functions have been moved to a new package quanteda.textmodels. This makes them easier to maintain and update, and keeps the size of the core package down.

  11. quanteda v2 implements major changes to the tokens() constructor. These are designed to simplify the code and its maintenance in quanteda, to allow users to work with other (external) tokenizers, and to improve consistency across the tokens processing options. Changes include:

    Note that tokens.tokens() will remove what is found, but cannot “undo” a removal – for instance it cannot replace missing punctuation characters if these have already been removed.

New features

Behaviour changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Other improvements

quanteda 1.5.2

New features

Bug fixes

quanteda 1.5.1

New features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 1.5.0

New features

Behaviour changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 1.4.1

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 1.4.0

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

New features

Behaviour changes

quanteda 1.3.14

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

New Features

quanteda 1.3.13

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

New Features

Behaviour changes

quanteda 1.3.4

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

New Features

quanteda 1.3.0

New Features

Behaviour changes

Bug fixes

quanteda 1.2.0

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Behaviour changes

quanteda 1.1.1

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Performance improvements

Behaviour changes

quanteda 1.0.0

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Behaviour Changes

quanteda 0.99.12

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Behaviour Changes

quanteda 0.99.9

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 0.99

New Features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

Behaviour changes

quanteda 0.9.9-65

New features

Behaviour changes

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 0.9.9-50

New features

Bug fixes and stability enhancements

quanteda 0.9.9-24

New features

Behaviour changes

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.9.9-17

New features

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.9.9-3

Bug fixes

New features

This release has some major changes to the API, described below.

Data objects

Renamed data objects

new name original name notes
data_char_sampletext exampleString
data_char_mobydick mobydickText
data_dfm_LBGexample LBGexample
data_char_sampletext exampleString

Renamed internal data objects

The following objects have been renamed, but will not affect user-level functionality because they are primarily internal. Their man pages have been moved to a common ?data-internal man page, hidden from the index, but linked from some of the functions that use them.

new name original name notes
data_int_syllables englishSyllables (used by textcount_syllables())
data_char_wordlists wordlists (used by readability())
data_char_stopwords .stopwords (used by stopwords()

Deprecated data objects

In v.0.9.9 the old names remain available, but are deprecated.

new name original name notes
data_char_ukimmig2010 ukimmigTexts
data_corpus_irishbudget2010 ie2010Corpus
data_char_inaugural inaugTexts
data_corpus_inaugural inaugCorpus

Deprecated functions

The following functions will still work, but issue a deprecation warning:

new function deprecated function constructs:
tokens tokenize() tokens class object
corpus_subset subset.corpus corpus class object
corpus_reshape changeunits corpus class object
corpus_sample sample corpus class object
corpus_segment segment corpus class object
dfm_compress compress dfm class object
dfm_lookup applyDictionary dfm class object
dfm_remove removeFeatures.dfm dfm class object
dfm_sample sample.dfm dfm class object
dfm_select selectFeatures.dfm dfm class object
dfm_smooth smoother dfm class object
dfm_sort sort.dfm dfm class object
dfm_trim trim.dfm dfm class object
dfm_weight weight dfm class object
textplot_wordcloud plot.dfm (plot)
textplot_xray plot.kwic (plot)
textstat_readability readability data.frame
textstat_lexdiv lexdiv data.frame
textstat_simil similarity dist
textstat_dist similarity dist
featnames features character
nsyllable syllables (named) integer
nscrabble scrabble (named) integer
tokens_ngrams ngrams tokens class object
tokens_skipgrams skipgrams tokens class object
tokens_toupper toUpper.tokens, toUpper.tokenizedTexts tokens, tokenizedTexts
tokens_tolower toLower.tokens, toLower.tokenizedTexts tokens, tokenizedTexts
char_toupper toUpper.character, toUpper.character character
char_tolower toLower.character, toLower.character character
tokens_compound joinTokens, phrasetotoken tokens class object

New functions

The following are new to v0.9.9 (and not associated with deprecated functions):

new function description output class
fcm() constructor for a feature co-occurrence matrix fcm
fcm_select selects features from an fcm fcm
fcm_remove removes features from an fcm fcm
fcm_sort sorts an fcm in alphabetical order of its features fcm
fcm_compress compacts an fcm fcm
fcm_tolower lowercases the features of an fcm and compacts fcm
fcm_toupper uppercases the features of an fcm and compacts fcm
dfm_tolower lowercases the features of a dfm and compacts dfm
dfm_toupper uppercases the features of a dfm and compacts dfm
sequences experimental collocation detection sequences

Deleted functions and data objects

new name reason
encodedTextFiles.zip moved to the readtext package
describeTexts deprecated several versions ago for summary.character
textfile moved to package readtext
encodedTexts moved to package readtext, as data_char_encodedtexts
findSequences replaced by sequences

Other new features

quanteda 0.9.8

New Features

Bug fixes

Changes

quanteda 0.9.6

Bug fixes >= 0.9.6-3

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.9.4

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.9.2

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.9.0

Bug Fixes

quanteda 0.8.6

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.8.4

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.8.2

Bug Fixes

Deletions

API changes

Imminent Changes

quanteda 0.8.0

Syntax changes and workflow streamlining

The workflow is now more logical and more streamlined, with a new workflow vignette as well as a design vignette explaining the principles behind the workflow and the commands that encourage this workflow. The document also details the development plans and things remaining to be done on the project.

Encoding detection and conversion

Newly rewritten command encoding() detects encoding for character, corpus, and corpusSource objects (created by textfile). When creating a corpus using corpus(), detection is automatic to UTF-8 if an encoding other than UTF-8, ASCII, or ISO-8859-1 is detected.

Major infrastructural changes

The tokenization, cleaning, lower-casing, and dfm construction functions now use the stringi package, based on the ICU library. This results not only in substantial speed improvements, but also more correctly handles Unicode characters and strings.

Other changes

Bug fixes

quanteda 0.7.3

quanteda 0.7.2

quanteda 0.7.1

Many major changes to the syntax in this version.

quanteda 0.7.0

quanteda 0.6.6

quanteda 0.6.5

quanteda 0.6.4

quanteda 0.6.3

quanteda 0.6.2

quanteda 0.6.1

quanteda 0.6.0

quanteda 0.5.8

Classification and scaling methods

quanteda 0.5.7

New arguments for dfm()

quanteda 0.5.6

quanteda 0.5.5

quanteda 0.5.4

quanteda 0.5.3

quanteda 0.5.2

quanteda 0.5.1

quanteda 0.5.0

Lots of new functions

Old functions vastly improved

Better object and class design

more complete documentation