All the books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka

Description

A subset of tipitaka_names consisting of only the books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka. These are easier to read if you call pali_string_fix() first.

Usage

abhidhamma_pitaka

Format

A tibble with the variables:

book

Abbreviated title

name

Full title

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Examples

# Clean up the Unicode characters to make things more readable:
abhidhamma_pitaka$name <-
  stringi::stri_unescape_unicode(abhidhamma_pitaka$name)


# Count all the words in the Abhidhamma Pitaka:
sum(tipitaka_long[tipitaka_long$book %in% abhidhamma_pitaka$book, "n"])

Pali alphabet in order

Description

Pali alphabet in order

Usage

pali_alphabet

Format

The Pali alphabet in traditional order.

Examples

# Returns TRUE because a comes before b in Pali:
match("a", pali_alphabet) < match("b", pali_alphabet)
# Returns FALSE beceause c comes before b in Pali
match("b", pali_alphabet) < match("c", pali_alphabet)

Equal (==) comparison function for Pali words

Description

Note that all Pali string comparisons are case-insensitive.

Usage

pali_eq(word1, word2)

Arguments

Value

TRUE if word1 and word2 are the same

Greater-than (>) comparison function for Pali words

Description

Note that all Pali string comparisons are case-insensitive. #' Also non-Pali characters are placed at the end of the alphabet and are considered equivalent to each other.

Usage

pali_gt(word1, word2)

Arguments

Value

TRUE if word1 comes after word2 alphabetically

Less-than (<) comparison function for Pali words

Description

Note that all Pali string comparisons are case-insensitive. Also non-Pali characters are placed at the end of the alphabet and are considered equivalent to each other. This has been implemented in C++ for speed.

Usage

pali_lt(word1, word2)

Arguments

Value

TRUE if word1 comes before word2 alphabetically

Sorting function for vectors of Pali words.

Description

Note that all Pali string comparisons are case-insensitive. This algorithm is based on Quicksort, but creates lots of intermediate data structures instead of doing swaps in place. This has been implemented in C++ as the original R version was about 500x slower.

Usage

pali_sort(word_list)

Arguments

Value

A new vector of Pali words in Pali alphabetical order

Examples

# A sorted list of 100 random words from the Tipitaka:
pali_sort(sample(tipitaka_long$word, 100))

Tentative set of "stop words" for Pali

Description

A list of all declinables and particles from the PTS Pali-English Dictionary.

Usage

pali_stop_words

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 245 rows and 1 columns.

Source

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/

Examples

# Show top content words in the Tipitaka (excluding stop words)
content_words <- tipitaka_long[!tipitaka_long$word %in% pali_stop_words$word, ]
head(content_words[order(-content_words$n), ], 10)

All the books of the Sutta Pitaka

Description

A subset of tipitaka_names consisting of only the books of the Sutta Pitaka. These are easier to read if you call stringi::stri_unescape_unicode first.

Usage

sutta_pitaka

Format

A tibble with the variables:

book

Abbreviated title

name

Full title

Examples

# Clean up the Unicode characters to make things more readable:
sutta_pitaka$name <-
  stringi::stri_unescape_unicode(sutta_pitaka$name)


# Count all the words in the Suttas:
sum(
  unique(
    tipitaka_long[tipitaka_long$book %in% sutta_pitaka$book, "total"]))

tipitaka: Data and Tools for Analyzing the Pali Canon

Description

The tipitaka package provides access to the complete Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, from R. The Tipitaka is the canonical scripture for Theravadin Buddhists worldwide. This package includes the VRI (Vipassana Research Institute) Chattha Sangayana edition along with tools for working with Pali text.

Provides access to the complete Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, the canonical scripture for Theravadin Buddhists worldwide. Based on the Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka version 4 (Vipassana Research Institute, 1990). Includes word frequency data and tools for Pali string sorting. For a lemmatized critical edition with sutta-level granularity, see the companion package 'tipitaka.critical'.

Datasets

• tipitaka_raw: the complete text of the Tipitaka (VRI)

• tipitaka_names: the names of each book of the Tipitaka

• sutta_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Sutta Pitaka

• vinaya_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Vinaya Pitaka

• abhidhamma_pitaka: the names of each volume of the Abhidhamma Pitaka

• pali_alphabet: the complete Pali alphabet in traditional order

• pali_stop_words: a set of "stop words" for Pali

Derived Data

These are computed on demand from tipitaka_raw on first access:

• tipitaka_long: word frequencies per volume

• tipitaka_wide: word frequency matrix (volumes x words)

Tools

Functions for working with Pali text:

• pali_lt: less-than function for Pali strings

• pali_gt: greater-than function for Pali strings

• pali_eq: equals function for Pali strings

• pali_sort: sorting function for vectors of Pali strings

Related Packages

The companion package tipitaka.critical provides a lemmatized critical edition of the complete Tipitaka based on a five-witness collation with sutta-level granularity.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Dan Zigmond djz@shmonk.com

Tipitaka in "long" form

Description

Every word of every volume of the Tipitaka, with one word per volume per line. Computed from tipitaka_raw on first access.

Usage

tipitaka_long

Format

A data frame with the variables:

word

Pali word

n

Number of times this word appears in this book

total

Total number of words in this book

freq

Frequency with which this word appears in this book

book

Abbreviated book name

Source

Vipassana Research Institute, CST4, April 2020

Names of each book of the Tipitaka, both abbreviated and in full. These are easier to read if you call pali_string_fix() first.

Description

Names of each book of the Tipitaka, both abbreviated and in full. These are easier to read if you call pali_string_fix() first.

Usage

tipitaka_names

Format

A tibble with the variables:

book

Abbreviated title

name

Full title

Examples

# Clean up the Unicode characters to make things more readable:
tipitaka_names$name <-
  stringi::stri_unescape_unicode(tipitaka_names$name)

Tipitaka text in raw form

Description

The unprocessed text of the Tipitaka, with one row per volume.

Usage

tipitaka_raw

Format

A tibble with the variables:

text

Text of each Tipitaka volume

book

Abbreviated book name of each volume

Source

Vipassana Research Institute, CST4, April 2020

Tipitaka in "wide" form

Description

Every word of every volume of the Tipitaka, with one word per column and one book per line. Each cell is the frequency at which that word appears in that book. Computed from tipitaka_raw on first access.

Usage

tipitaka_wide

Format

An object of class data.frame with 46 rows and 140433 columns.

Source

Vipassana Research Institute, CST4, April 2020

All the books of the Vinaya Pitaka

Description

A subset of tipitaka_names consisting of only the books of the Vinaya Pitaka. These are easier to read if you call stringi::stri_unescape_unicode first.

Usage

vinaya_pitaka

Format

A tibble with the variables:

book

Abbreviated title

name

Full title

Examples

# Clean up the Unicode characters to make things more readable:
vinaya_pitaka$name <-
  stringi::stri_unescape_unicode(vinaya_pitaka$name)


# Count all the words in the Vinaya Pitaka:
sum(tipitaka_long[tipitaka_long$book %in% vinaya_pitaka$book, "n"])