Detect language from a character string.

get_lang(query, api_key = NULL)

Arguments

query

the character string you want to detect the language from.

api_key

your API key.

Value

Returns a data.frame with the detected languages, in descending order of probability. Values are : language_code, language_name, probability (length of the provided query text and how well it is identified as a language), percentage (confidence margin between multiple matches), and reliable_result (whether or not the API is completely confident about the main match).

Details

Takes a character string, returns a data.frame with the available values.

Note

Before running a function of this package for the first time, you need to set your API key using the setApiKey function.

Examples

get_lang(query = "I really really love R and that's a good thing, right?", api_key = "apikey")
#> Warning: API error, code: 101 invalid_access_key You have not supplied a valid API Access Key. [Technical Support: support@apilayer.com]
#> [1] language_code language_name probability percentage #> [5] reliable_result #> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)