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This chapter expands upon the previous chapter in order to build an interactive and reusable Key Word in Context (KWIC) application that allows for quick and intuitive KWIC list building. Readers are introduced to interactive R functions including readline and functions for data type conversion.
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Obviously you could create a more complex function that would give the user flexibility in terms of capitalization. For simplicity, we are working with a lower-cased text with all of the punctuation stripped out.
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Jockers, M.L. (2014). Do It KWIC (Better). In: Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_9
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