Statistics, Department of
The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2011) 3(2)
Abstract
We discuss the facilities in base R for spell checking via Aspell, Hunspell or Ispell, which are useful in particular for conveniently checking the spelling of natural language texts in package Rd files and vignettes. Spell checking performance is illustrated using the Rd files in package stats. This example clearly indicates the need for a domain-specific statistical dictionary. We analyze the results of spell checking all Rd files in all CRAN packages and show how these can be employed for building such a dictionary.
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Copyright 2011, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported