R Observatory: Metrics for LexisNexisTools version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

LexisNexisTools

1.0.0Package record

Working with Files from 'LexisNexis'

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

90.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Johannes B. GruberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

My PhD supervisor once told me that everyone doing newspaper analysis starts by writing code to read in files from the 'LexisNexis' newspaper archive (retrieved e.g., from https://www.lexisnexis.com/ or any of the partner sites). However, while this is a nice exercise I do recommend, not everyone has the time. This package takes files downloaded from the newspaper archive of 'LexisNexis', reads them into R and offers functions for further processing.

Changes in 1.0.0

Fixes issue in tests
articles parse from Nexis Uni now feature proper line breaks
start removing classification data that comes from nexis

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("LexisNexisTools", 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("JBGruber/LexisNexisTools")

Development version from JBGruber/LexisNexisTools. 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-lexisnexistools

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-LexisNexisTools

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-LexisNexisTools

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

Additional issues

M1mac

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 1,829 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 70%7 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 40%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Basic Usage HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,790 · ~11/day · ~338/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51530 days

1.1K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u6 autocran72 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jbgruber/lexisnexistools ↗Account: JBGruber

117Stars

23Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

314Commits

9Commit identities

rrstatsr-packagetext-analysis

314 commits · Last activity 2024-04-17 · +0.9% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.3.7.9000) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 188
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 1092026-10-19 · 117

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jbgruber/lexisnexistools on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing LexisNexisTools adds 27 packages (20 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, quanteda 4.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

data.tablemethodsparallel (>= 3.3.0)pbapply quanteda quanteda.textstatsstatsstringdist stringi tibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

corpustools covr diffobj dplyr RSQLite testthat tidytext tm kableExtra knitr pdftools rmarkdown spelling striprtf xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Johannes B. Gruber

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.0

Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2018)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Johannes Gruber

no longer listed · 0.1.2 to 0.3.7

Releases (14)

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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-01-04
0.3.5
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2022-01-04 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-19
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-04-06 · diff ↗
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2020-10-17 · diff ↗
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2020-06-03 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
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2020-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
lnt2df, lnt2tidy
0.2.3
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2019-07-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
lnt_checkFiles

added 1 export
lnt2bibtex
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2019-01-27 · diff ↗
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2018-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
lnt2SQLite, lnt2cptools, lnt2quanteda, lnt2rDNA, lnt2tm, lnt_add, lnt_asDate, lnt_convert, lnt_diff, lnt_lookup
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-04-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-09
Total releases: 14 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 866 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("LexisNexisTools")

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

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 LexisNexisTools version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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