Package: aesopR 0.1.0

aesopR: Tools for Text Analysis of Aesop's Fables

Provides a tidy text corpus of Aesop's Fables sourced from the Library of Congress, along with analysis-ready datasets for sentiment, emotion, and linguistic analysis of moral storytelling. The package includes both full narrative texts and word-level representations to support exploratory text analysis and teaching workflows.

Authors:Dave Brocker [aut, cre]

aesopR_0.1.0.tar.gz
aesopR_0.1.0.zip(r-4.7-any)aesopR_0.1.0.zip(r-4.6-any)aesopR_0.1.0.zip(r-4.5-any)
aesopR_0.1.0.tgz(r-4.6-any)aesopR_0.1.0.tgz(r-4.5-any)
aesopR_0.1.0.tar.gz(r-4.7-any)aesopR_0.1.0.tar.gz(r-4.6-any)
aesopR_0.1.0.tgz(r-4.6-emscripten)
manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION
card.svg |card.png
aesopR/json (API)

# Install 'aesopR' in R:
install.packages('aesopR', repos = c('https://davidbrocker.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/davidbrocker/aesopr/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://davidbrocker.github.io

Datasets:

On CRAN:

Conda:

4.65 score 257 downloads 0 exports 0 dependencies

Last updated from:fae4c4ff57. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

TargetResultTimeFilesSyslog
linux-develOK131
source / vignettesOK194
linux-releaseOK93
macos-releaseOK167
macos-oldrelOK164
windows-develOK81
windows-releaseOK82
windows-oldrelOK77
wasm-releaseOK73

Exports:

Dependencies:

classroom
Teaching with a public-domain corpus | Helper: pick the fable (“Fox and the Grapes”) | Activity 1: “Guess the moral” from partial evidence | Instructor code: top words | Activity 2: “Methods as measurement” (lexicon comparison) | Bing sentiment counts | AFINN score summary | Identify sentiment-driving words (simple) | Activity 3: “Operational definitions” (what counts as a construct?) | Instructor code: create simple “dictionary” counts
Rendered fromclassroom.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-02-24
Started: 2026-02-24

Getting started
What is aesopR? | The core datasets | aesops_fables | full texts and metadata | aesops_tokens | tidy word-level data | Find “The Fox and the Grapes” | Token-based exploration | Most common words in this fable | Sentiment datasets (no external downloads) | Bing sentiment: positive vs negative counts | AFINN sentiment: summary of scores | Where to go next
Rendered fromaesopR.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-02-24
Started: 2026-02-24

sentiment
Why two lexicons? | Sentiment summaries across the entire corpus | Which fables are “most positive” or “most negative”? | Discussion prompts: | A story-driven deep dive: “The Fox and the Grapes” | Teaching note: | Extending to other lexicons (optional) | Example: using another tidytext lexicon (if available) | Wrap-up: methods takeaways
Rendered fromsentiment.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-02-24
Started: 2026-02-24