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+# Python Client Support
+Currently, there is no native KorAP client library for Python, yet.
+With [rpy2](https://rpy2.github.io/), however, you can already use the [KorAP client library for R](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient) from within Python.
+
+## Using the RKorAPClient from within Python
+### Installing Dependencies
+#### Linux
+```shell script
+#### Debian / Ubuntu
+sudo apt install r-base r-base-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libsodium-dev python3-pip python3-rpy2 python3-pandas
+echo 'install.packages("RKorAPClient", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")' | R --vanilla
+pip3 install plotly-express
+
+#### Fedora / CentOS / RHEL
+sudo yum install r-base R-devel libcurl-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel libsodium-devel python3-pandas
+echo 'install.packages("RKorAPClient", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/")' | R --vanilla
+pip3 install rpy2 plotly-express
+```
+
+#### Other Operating Systems (currently untested)
+- install the RKorAP client as described in it's [installation section](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient#installation)
+- install [rpy2](https://rpy2.github.io/)
+  ```shell script
+  pip install rpy2
+  ```
+- install [Plotly Express](https://plotly.com/python/plotly-express/) to run the [examples](examples) with visualizations:
+  ```shell script
+  pip install plotly.express
+  ```
+#### Examples
+#### Frequencies over years and countries
+```python
+import rpy2.robjects.packages as packages
+import rpy2.robjects.pandas2ri as pandas2ri
+import plotly.express as px
+pandas2ri.activate()
+
+QUERY = "Hello World"
+YEARS = range(2010, 2019)
+COUNTRIES = ["DE", "CH"]
+
+RKorAPClient = packages.importr('RKorAPClient')
+kcon = RKorAPClient.KorAPConnection(verbose=True)
+
+vcs = ["textType=/Zeit.*/ & pubPlaceKey=" + c + " & pubDate in " + str(y) for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+df = RKorAPClient.ipm(RKorAPClient.frequencyQuery(kcon, QUERY, vcs))
+df['Year'] = [y for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+df['Country'] = [c for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+
+fig = px.line(df, title=QUERY, x="Year", y="ipm", color="Country",
+              error_y="conf.high", error_y_minus="conf.low")
+fig.show()
+```
+[Frequency per million words of “Hello World“ in DE vs. AT from 2010 to 2018 in newspapers and magazines](figures/hello-world.png)
+
+### Accessed API Services
+By using the KorAPClient you agree to the respective terms of use of the accessed KorAP API services which will be printed upon opening a connection.
+
+## Development and License
+
+**Author**: [Marc Kupietz](http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/zfo/personal/kupietz/)
+
+Copyright (c) 2020, [Leibniz Institute for the German Language](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Mannheim, Germany
+
+This package is developed as part of the [KorAP](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
+Corpus Analysis Platform at the Leibniz Institute for German Language
+([IDS](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/)).
+
+It is published under the [BSD-2 License](LICENSE).
+
+## Contributions
+
+Contributions are very welcome!
+
+Your contributions should ideally be committed via our [Gerrit server](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/)
+to facilitate reviewing (see [Gerrit Code Review - A Quick Introduction](https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/Documentation/intro-quick.html)
+if you are not familiar with Gerrit). However, we are also happy to accept comments and pull requests
+via GitHub.
+
+Please note that unless you explicitly state otherwise any
+contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion into this software shall –
+as this software itself – be under the [BSD-2 License](LICENSE).
+
+## References
+
+- Kupietz, Marc / Margaretha, Eliza / Diewald, Nils / Lüngen, Harald / Fankhauser, Peter (2019): [What’s New in EuReCo? Interoperability, Comparable Corpora, Licensing](https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90261). In: Bański, Piotr/Barbaresi, Adrien/Biber, Hanno/Breiteneder, Evelyn/Clematide, Simon/Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald/Iliadi, Caroline (eds.): [*Proceedings of the International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019 Workshop "Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-7)"*](https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/collection/id/21038), 22nd of July Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 33-39.
+
+- Kupietz, Marc / Diewald, Nils / Margaretha, Eliza (forthcoming): RKorAPClient: An R package for accessing the German Reference Corpus DeReKo via KorAP. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille/Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 
+
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import rpy2.robjects.packages as packages
+import rpy2.robjects.pandas2ri as pandas2ri
+import plotly.express as px
+pandas2ri.activate()
+
+QUERY = "Hello World"
+YEARS = range(2010, 2019)
+COUNTRIES = ["DE", "CH"]
+
+RKorAPClient = packages.importr('RKorAPClient')
+kcon = RKorAPClient.KorAPConnection(verbose=True)
+
+vcs = ["textType=/Zeit.*/ & pubPlaceKey=" + c + " & pubDate in " + str(y) for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+df = RKorAPClient.ipm(RKorAPClient.frequencyQuery(kcon, QUERY, vcs))
+df['Year'] = [y for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+df['Country'] = [c for c in COUNTRIES for y in YEARS]
+
+fig = px.line(df, title=QUERY, x="Year", y="ipm", color="Country",
+              error_y="conf.high", error_y_minus="conf.low")
+fig.show()
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