R Observatory: Metrics for LDAvis version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

LDAvis

0.3.2Package record

Interactive Visualization of Topic Models

1packages dependsuggested by 3

44.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carson SievertCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tools to create an interactive web-based visualization of a topic model that has been fit to a corpus of text data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Given the estimated parameters of the topic model, it computes various summary statistics as input to an interactive visualization built with D3.js that is accessed via a browser. The goal is to help users interpret the topics in their LDA topic model.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("LDAvis", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("cpsievert/LDAvis")

Development version from cpsievert/LDAvis. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ldavis

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-LDAvis

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-LDAvis

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.2

READMEYes · 486 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNo

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 14%

Vignettes (1)

LDAvis details PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

44.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,204 · ~122/day · ~3.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6K30 days

7.8K90 days

44.6K1 year

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Also on115 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cpsievert/ldavis ↗Account: cpsievert

572Stars

129Forks

31Open issues

4Open PRs

0Releases

299Commits

11Commit identities

topic-modelingrjavascriptvisualizationtext-mining

299 commits · Last activity 2018-04-25 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.5, ahead of CRAN 0.3.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-10-09 · 5652026-10-10 · 572

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cpsievert/ldavis on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-02-21

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing LDAvis adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 792 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: RJSONIO 722 KB, proxy 70 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

proxy RJSONIOparallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

mallet lda topicmodels gistr servr shiny knitr rmarkdown digest htmltools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

craftgrn

Suggests, most downloaded first

text2vec stm sentopics

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Carson Sievert

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2015)

Kenny Shirley

Author

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.2Latest
record
2015-10-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
renderVis, visOutput
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2
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2015-01-23
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-01-23
Total releases: 2 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 541 KB / 1 file
Download size: 774 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("LDAvis")

Format

Sievert, C., & Shirley, K. (2015). LDAvis: Interactive Visualization of Topic Models (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.LDAvis

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for LDAvis version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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