6 Preliminaries

Now that we have loaded our texts into R, it is time to understand what our texts are about, who their authors are, and what we can expect to find in them. Here we will look at three different techniques for doing this: keywords-in-context, visualisations and text statistics. Before that, however, we will have a brief look at the idea of the corpus, as it is central to the idea of how quanteda works.