tipitaka {tipitaka}

tipitaka: A package for exploring the Pali Canon in R.

Description

The package tipitaka provides access to the complete Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, from R. The Tipitaka is the canonical scripture for Therevadin Buddhists worldwide. This version is largely taken from the Chattha Sangāyana Tipitaka version 4.0 com;iled by the Vispassana Research Institute, although edits have been made to conform to the numbering used by the Pali Text Society. This package provides both data and tools to facilitate the analysis of these ancient Pali texts.

Data

Several data sets are included:

• tipitaka_raw: the complete text of the Tipitaka

• tipitaka_long: the complete Tipitaka in "long" form

• tipitaka_wide: the complete Tipitaka in "wide" form

• tipitaka_names: the names of each book of the Tipitaka

• sutta_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Sutta Pitaka

• vinaya_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Vinaya Pitaka

• abhidhamma_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Abhidhamma Pitak

• sati_sutta_raw: the Mahāsatipatthāna Sutta text

• sati_sutta_long: the Mahāsatipatthāna Sutta in "long" form

• pali_alphabet: the complete pali alphabet in traditional order

• pali_stop_words: a set of "stop words" for Pali

Tools

A few useful functions are provided for working with Pali text:

• pali_lt: less-than function for Pali strings

• pali-gt: greater-than function for Pali strings

• pali-eq: equals function for Pali strings

• pali-sort: sorting function for vectors of pali strings