hansardr: A Software Package in R
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hansardr: A Software Package in R

hansardr makes it easy to access our improved, analysis-ready data set “The Hansard 19th-Century British Parliamentary Debates with Improved Speaker Names” within the R environment.

This is a clean corpus of the 19th-century British Parliamentary Debates (1803-1909), also known as Hansard. It identifies debates whose records are missing from UK Parliament’s corpus, and it also offers a field for disambiguated speakers. We believe these improvements will enable researchers to analyze the Hansard debates, including speaker discourse, in a way that has not been accessible before.

Visit hansardr on GitHub for installation and useage instructions.

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant (no. 1520103).

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