To install the R package, run:
library(remotes)
remotes::install_github('swerik-project/rcr')
To use the R package, download the riksdagen-records corpora here. As a first step, we point to the directory where the corpora are stored as follows:
library(rcr)
set_riksdag_corpora_path("[THE PATH TO THE CORPORA HERE]")
To extract speeches from the corpora, we use extract_speeches_from_records(). Below is an example that assumes that the corpora path has been set and extracts the speeches from three different records.
fps <-
c("data/1896/prot-1896--ak--042.xml",
"data/1951/prot-1951--fk--029.xml",
"data/1975/prot-1975--036.xml")
sp <- extract_speeches_from_records(fps)
Similarly we can extract the dates from the records with
ds <- extract_record_dates_from_records(fps)