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Borut Flis
Borut Flis

Reputation: 16395

Trouble loading wordnet package in R

I have trouble loading wordnet into R. I use R x64 2.14.1. I installed the package wordnet and then I tried to load the package.

> library(wordnet)
Warning message:
In initDict() :
  cannot find WordNet 'dict' directory: please set the environment variable WNHOME to its parent

What is wrong? How and to what should I set the directory WNHOME.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7265

Answers (5)

Aprajita Anand
Aprajita Anand

Reputation: 1

I was facing the same problem while calling the library "wordnet" in R on Windows. Then after many unsuccessful trials,I downloaded the WordNet_2.1.exe file from this site https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/users-choice/Wordnet_2.1.html. After downloading this,you can directly set path in R and proceed with no further interuptions. For me this worked:

    library(wordnet)
    setDict("C:/Program Files/WordNet/2.1/dict")
    Sys.setenv(WNHOME = "C:/Program Files/WordNet/2.1")
    getDict()

Try it!!

Upvotes: 0

Venkatesh Nagella
Venkatesh Nagella

Reputation: 31

This works fine. We need to set WNHOME to dict's parent directory which is ./WordNet/2.1 from R using Sys.setenv()

library(wordnet)
setDict("C:/Program Files (x86)/WordNet/2.1/dict")
Sys.setenv(WNHOME = "C:/Program Files (x86)/WordNet/2.1")

Upvotes: 2

Kasper Christensen
Kasper Christensen

Reputation: 915

You need to set the dictionary path. See example below.

setDict("/Users/kasper2304/Desktop/WordNet-3.0/dict")

Further I had problems using R-studio so I was forced to use JGR.

Upvotes: 7

roselilly
roselilly

Reputation: 11

I had this problem and solved it by downloading and installing wordnet from http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/2.1/WordNet-2.1.exe and then rerunning

library(wordnet)
setDict("C:/Program Files (x86)/WordNet/2.1/dict")

Upvotes: 1

Vincent Zoonekynd
Vincent Zoonekynd

Reputation: 32381

The data has to be installed separately. If you are on Linux, just install the "wordnet" package (on Windows, it will be more manual).

sudo apt-get install wordnet  # For Debian-based distributions

Upvotes: 4

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