dickes.steiwer function

Readability: Dickes-Steiwer Handformel

This is just a convenient wrapper function for readability.

dickes.steiwer(
  txt.file,
  parameters = c(const = 235.95993, awl = 73.021, asl = 12.56438, ttr = 50.03293),
  case.sens = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• txt.file: Either an object of class kRp.text, a character vector which must be be a valid path to a file containing the text to be analyzed, or a list of text features. If the latter, calculation is done by readability.num.
• parameters: A numeric vector with named magic numbers, defining the relevant parameters for the index.
• case.sens: Logical, whether types should be counted case sensitive.
• ...: Further valid options for the main function, see readability for details.

Returns

An object of class kRp.readability.

Details

This function calculates the shortcut formula by Dickes-Steiwer. In contrast to readability, which by default calculates all possible indices, this function will only calculate the index value.

This formula doesn't need syllable count.

Examples

## Not run:

  dickes.steiwer(tagged.text)
## End(Not run)