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dale.chall

Readability: Dale-Chall Readability Formula

Description

This is just a convenient wrapper function for readability.

Usage

dale.chall(
  txt.file,
  word.list,
  parameters = c(const = 64, dword = 0.95, asl = 0.69),
  ...
)

Arguments

txt.file

Either an object of class kRp.text, a character vector which must be be a valid path to a file containing the text to be analyzed, or a list of text features. If the latter, calculation is done by readability.num.
word.list

A vector or matrix (with exactly one column) which defines familiar words. For valid results the long Dale-Chall list with about 3000 words should be used.
parameters

A numeric vector with named magic numbers, defining the relevant parameters for the index.
...

Further valid options for the main function, see readability for details.

Details

Calculates the New Dale-Chall Readability Formula. In contrast to readability, which by default calculates all possible indices, this function will only calculate the index value.

If parameters="PSK", the parameters by Powers-Sumner-Kearl (1958) are used, and if parameters="old", the original parameters by Dale-Chall (1948), respectively.

This formula doesn't need syllable count.

Value

An object of class kRp.readability.

Examples

## Not run: 
dale.chall(tagged.text, word.list=new.dale.chall.wl)

## End(Not run)
koRpus

Text Analysis with Emphasis on POS Tagging, Readability, and Lexical Diversity

v0.13-6
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Meik Michalke [aut, cre], Earl Brown [ctb], Alberto Mirisola [ctb], Alexandre Brulet [ctb], Laura Hauser [ctb]
Initial release
2021-05-08

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