Package: RNewsflow 1.2.8

RNewsflow: Tools for Comparing Text Messages Across Time and Media

A collection of tools for measuring the similarity of text messages and tracing the flow of messages over time and across media.

Authors:Kasper Welbers & Wouter van Atteveldt

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NEWS

# Install 'RNewsflow' in R:

install.packages('RNewsflow', repos = c('https://kasperwelbers.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/kasperwelbers/rnewsflow/issues

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Datasets:

docnet - Document similarity network for one news agency, and the print and online editions of two newspapers
rnewsflow_dfm - Quanteda dfm for RNewsflow vignette demo

On CRAN:

cpp

6.93 score 38 stars 2 packages 37 scripts 425 downloads 20 exports 31 dependencies

Last updated from:d6909a9c8a. Checks:13 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	173
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	171
source / vignettes	OK	220
linux-release-arm64	OK	160
linux-release-x86_64	OK	166
macos-release-arm64	OK	157
macos-release-x86_64	OK	393
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	286
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	300
windows-devel	OK	449
windows-release	OK	207
windows-oldrel	OK	582
wasm-release	OK	137

Exports:as_document_network compare_documents create_document_network create_queries delete_duplicates directed_network_plot document_network_plot filter_window get_doc_terms get_overlap_terms hourdiff_range_thresholds network_aggregate newsflow_compare only_first_match show_window tcrossprod_sparse term_char_sim term_day_dist term_intersect term_union

Dependencies:cli cpp11 data.table farver fastmatch glue igraph ISOcodes jsonlite labeling lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix pkgconfig quanteda R6 RColorBrewer Rcpp RcppEigen RcppProgress rlang scales SnowballC stopwords stringi vctrs viridisLite wordcloud xml2 yaml

RNewsflow: Tools for analyzing content homogeneity and news diffusion using computational text analysis

by Kasper Welbers and Wouter van Atteveldt

Rendered fromRNewsflow.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 31 2026.

Last update: 2024-04-03
Started: 2016-02-11

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Create a document similarity network	as_document_network
Compare the documents in a dtm	compare_documents
Create a document similarity network	create_document_network
Automatically infer queries from combinations of terms in a dtm	create_queries
Delete duplicate (or similar) documents from a document term matrix	delete_duplicates
A wrapper for plot.igraph for visualizing directed networks.	directed_network_plot
Document similarity network for one news agency, and the print and online editions of two newspapers	docnet
Visualize (a subcomponent) of the document similarity network	document_network_plot
Filter edges from the document similarity network based on hour difference	filter_window
View term scores for a given document	get_doc_terms
View overlapping terms for a given pair of documents	get_overlap_terms
Inspect effects of thresholds on matches over time	hourdiff_range_thresholds
Aggregate the edges of a network by vertex attributes	network_aggregate
Create a network of document similarities over time	newsflow_compare
Transform document network so that each document only matches the earliest dated matching document	only_first_match
quanteda dfm for RNewsflow vignette demo	rnewsflow_dfm
Show time window of document pairs	show_window
tcrossprod with benefits, for people that like parameters	tcrossprod_sparse
Find terms with similar spelling	term_char_sim
Calculate statistics for term occurence across days	term_day_dist
Experimental: Convert dtm scores to a term innovation score, based on changes in term use over time	term_innovation
Combine terms in a dtm	term_intersect
Combine terms in a dtm	term_union