Stylometry with R: A Package for Computational Text Analysis
Introduction by OpenMethods Editor (Maciej Maryl): This software paper describes ‘stylo’ – an R package for stylometric research and text processing.
Stylometry (computational stylistics) is concerned with the quantitative study of writing style, e.g. authorship verification, an application which has considerable potential in forensic contexts, as well as historical research. In this paper we introduce the possibilities of stylo for computational text analysis, via a number of dummy case studies from English and French literature. We demonstrate how the package is particularly useful in the exploratory statistical analysis of texts, e.g. with respect to authorial writing style.