The book The Riddle of Literary Quality presents a synthesis of research findings from the project The Riddle of Literary Quality. That project brought together a lot of data: the opinions on 401 books of almost 14,000 participants in The National Reader Survey (2013) and all kinds of data on those 401 books. More about The Riddle of Literary Quality can be found on the project website, which also collects all the publications that came out of it.
The data used by Karina van Dalen-Oskam for the book The Riddle of Literary Quality have been made available, insofar as they may be shared, in two ways: in csv files and in the litRiddle package for R. An exception to this are the research data underlying Andreas van Cranenburgh’s work, as described in Chapter 6. Those can be found at Andreas van Cranenburgh’s website.
The csv files and a description of what they contain can be found in the RiddleData repository in Github. The litRiddle R package version 1.0.0 is available through CRAN as of 25 July 2023. More information in CRAN and in the LitRiddle Data repository in Github.
R is a free software environment in which statistical analyses can be done and their results visualised in graphs. R can be downloaded from the R website. Once R is installed, you can then load the desired R package. More on data, package and how to use it below.
The litRiddle package for R
The litRiddle package for R version 1.0.0 is available as of 25 July 2023. It can be installed in R with
It may then be loaded with
More information about the package can then be found with
The litRiddle package was developed by Maciej Eder, Joris van Zundert, Saskia Lensink and Karina van Dalen-Oskam. How to cite the package can be found in the vignette, in CRAN and on Github.