alexr

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing. This is alex in R.

Whether your own or someone else’s writing, alex helps you find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing.

Installation

Once on CRAN, install the package with:

install.packages("alexr")

Usage

library(alexr)
alex(<text>)
alex(file(<filename>))

If called without any arguments, alex() checks all .md, .Rmd files in the working directory.

Example

Let's say example.md looks like this:

The boogeyman wrote all changes to the master server. Thus, the slaves were read-only copies of master. But not to worry, he was a cripple.

Then

alex(file("example.md"))

yields

example.md
   1:5-1:14  warning  `boogeyman` may be insensitive, use `boogey` instead
  1:42-1:48  warning  `master` / `slaves` may be insensitive, use
                      `primary` / `replica` instead
  2:52-2:54  warning  `he` may be insensitive, use `they`, `it` instead
  2:59-2:66  warning  `cripple` may be insensitive, use
                      `person with a limp` instead

License

MIT © Titus Wormer, Gábor Csárdi