data_corpus_inaugural {quanteda}

US presidential inaugural address texts

Description

US presidential inaugural address texts, and metadata (for the corpus), from 1789 to present.

Usage

data_corpus_inaugural

Format

a corpus object with the following docvars:

• Year a four-digit integer year

• President character; President's last name

• FirstName character; President's first name (and possibly middle initial)

• Party factor; name of the President's political party

Details

data_corpus_inaugural 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.

Source

https://archive.org/details/Inaugural-Address-Corpus-1789-2009 and https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/inaugural-addresses.

Examples

# some operations on the inaugural corpus
summary(data_corpus_inaugural)
head(docvars(data_corpus_inaugural), 10)