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seancarmody / ngramr

R package to query the Google Ngram Viewer
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What is the best default for the smoothing parameter? #6

Closed seancarmody closed 11 years ago

seancarmody commented 11 years ago

At the moment smoothing is set to 3 by default, consistent with the default on the Google Ngram Viewer page. While that works well with lines, now that ggram accepts arbitrary geoms, this smoothing default is not so good with step or point. Should the default be changed to 0? Should the default be 3 for line and 0 for other geoms?

seancarmody commented 11 years ago

Leaving it at 3 for now. I considered changing the default if a geom other than line was selected, but decided it would cause too much confusion.