Thoughts on scope and scope creep

[njtierney]

It is worthwhile to consider the scope of the package, and the possible scope creep.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to consider a "words" set of R packages that emulate the words organisation. This would open up the scope for things like:

• syl for syllable counts
• readable could use many of the different measurements of readability: for example, flesch-kinkade
• weaslr - this could also look for hedge words, and filler words.
• rhymes

[coolbutuseless]

I like the idea of a group of little packages for handling some common word needs.

I'm not certain where this "wordverse" might fit in considering there are quite a few rigorous text analysis packages (e.g. quanteda, tidytext.

Are we overlapping with stuff they've already done/perfected?