Counting syllables

Question

I\'m looking to assign some different readability scores to text in R such as the Flesh Kincaid.

Does anyone know of a way to segment words into syllables using R? I

Answer 1

qdap version 1.1.0 does this task:

library(qdap)
x <- c('dog', 'cat', 'pony', 'cracker', 'shoe', 'Popsicle')
syllable_sum(x)

## [1] 1 1 2 2 1 3