Quick start

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

• Really fast, what are some of the thing the Reader can do?

Objectives

• To outline very quickly, some of the different functions of the Reader

On your mark. Get set. Go!

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Once you have installed the Toolbox, there are quite a number of commands you can use for the purposes of analyzing (“reading”) a corpus. Here are just a few of them:

• rdr - to output a menu of all commands

• rdr --help - same as above, and remember, --help can be appended to any rdr command; for example: rdr download --help, rdr concordance --help, or rdr ngrams --help

• rdr set -s local - denote the location of your Distant Reader data sets (“study carrels”); for now, accept the default

• rdr download homer - download a previously created study carrel and save it in your local library

Key Points

• The Reader provides many differentr ways to model a corpus