lingtypology
: introduction and
installationlingtypology
?The lingtypology
package connects R with the Glottolog database (v. 5.0) and
provides an additional functionality for linguistic typology. The
Glottolog database contains a catalogue of the world’s languages. This
package helps researchers to make linguistic maps, using the philosophy
of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data
project, which is creating a uniform access to linguistic data
across publications. This package is based on the leaflet package, so
lingtypology
is a package for interactive linguistic
mapping. In addition, the package provides an ability to download data
from typological databases such as WALS, AUTOTYP and others (see section
4). The functionality of this package intersects with
lingtypr
– R package which partially intersects with lingtypology
functionality by Laura Becker;glottoTrees
– R package for visualising and modifing glottolog trees by Erich
RoundI would like to thank Natalya Tyshkevich, Samira Verhees and Eugenya Klyagina for reading and correcting some versions of this vignette.
Since lingtypology
is an R package, you should install
R (version >= 3.1.0) on your
PC if you haven’t already done so. To install the
lingtypology
package, run the following command at your R
IDE, so you get the stable version from CRAN:
You can also get the development version from GitHub:
Load the package:
lingtyplogy
It is important to cite R and R packages when you use them. For this
purpose use the citation
function:
## To cite package 'lingtypology' in publications use:
##
## Moroz G (2017). _lingtypology: easy mapping for Linguistic Typology_.
## <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lingtypology>.
##
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
##
## @Manual{,
## title = {lingtypology: easy mapping for Linguistic Typology},
## author = {George Moroz},
## year = {2017},
## url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lingtypology},
## }