R Observatory: Metrics for LSAfun version 0.8.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

LSAfun

0.8.1Package record

Applied Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Functions

1packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Fritz GuentherCRAN page ↗

Provides functions that allow for convenient working with vector space models of semantics/distributional semantic models/word embeddings. Originally built for LSA models (hence the name), but can be used for all such vector-based models. For actually building a vector semantic space, use the package 'lsa' or other specialized software. Downloadable semantic spaces can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/fritzgntr/software-resources.

Install

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

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

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

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-lsafun

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-LSAfun

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-LSAfun

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
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 0.8.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 29includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 83%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,151 · ~16/day · ~474/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51530 days

1.2K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing LSAfun adds 30 packages (17 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, rgl 4.0 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.1.0lsa rgl

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

transforEmotion

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Fritz Guenther

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Releases (16)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8.1Latest
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2025-04-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
centroid_analysis
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.1
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2023-11-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
SND, analogy
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.3
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2022-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
breakdown
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2022-05-01 · diff ↗
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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
0.6.1
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2019-12-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.6
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2019-02-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
multidocs, plot_doclist
0.5.3
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2018-11-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.5.2
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2018-03-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5.1
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2016-11-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.5
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2016-02-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pairwise
0.4
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2015-05-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
asym, conSIM, distance, plausibility
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-09-29 · diff ↗
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2014-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
neighbours, plot_neighbours

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neighbors, plot_neighbors
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2014-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plot_wordlist
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2014-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
normalize
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.1
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2014-04-03
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-04-03
Total releases: 16 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 1.2 MB / 5 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("LSAfun")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.3758/s13428-014-0529-0.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for LSAfun version 0.8.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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