tidytext R in spanish - any alternative?

Question

I'm doing sentiment analysis from twitter but my tweets are on Spanish so I can't use tidytext to classify the words. Does anyone know if there is a similar package for Spanish?

Answer 1

There are not a lot of good open source options for sentiment lexicons in non-English languages right now, unfortunately. You can request the NRC lexicon in other languages from the authors; it is translated by Google Translate (which of course adds uncertainty but has shown to be mostly OK overall) and the authors say they give it away for research purposes but will charge for commercial use.