https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/gutenbergr/ Recent content in Gutenbergr on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/12/extract-punct/ Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/12/extract-punct/ The start of ‘Moby Dick’ by Herman Melville tl;dr I wrote an R function to extract only the punctuation marks from a provided text. It prints prettily to the console, but you can also take a character vector away for further analysis. Punct rock A few years ago Adam J Calhoun did a small but really neat thing: extracted and presented only the punctuation from some books. It appeared again recently in my Twitter timeline.