pinyin

Tutorial for pinyin: Installation and Quick Start

• What Will I Learn?
  • What the R ‘pinyin’ package can do for you
  • How to Set up the environment which ‘pinyin’ requires.
  • How to use the main functions of ‘pinyin’
• Requirements
  • Windows/mac/Linux OS
  • R environment
  • R pinyin package
  • RStudio IDE (recommended)
• Difficulty
  • Basic

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[R pinyin: New Features] User customized dictionaries

The pinyin package intended to convert Chinese characters into pinyin. However, more demands were called by users. That was why the features of converting to four-corner codes and five-stroke codes (version 98) were added. After my previous update, the utopian moderator @justyy kindly suggested adding the Five-Stroke-86 as well. I totally agree, and I think there could be more.

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[R: New Features on pinyin] Convert Chinese Characters into Sijiao and Wubi codes

What features did I add?

• Four times faster for converting.
• At the beginning of the year 2018 I received an issue report by psychelzh about a polyphone error. Now a new pinyin library has been added, which more or less solved the polyphone problem.
• Convert Chinese characters into Sijiao codes (literally four corner code).
• and Wubi codes (literally five-stroke).
• Some minor bugs were fixed.

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[Task Request] Heteronym problem

Heteronym is a common lingual phenomenon in the most languages. Wikepedia:

A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning as another word but the same spelling.

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