R Observatory: Metrics for PsychWordVec version 2025.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PsychWordVec

2025.11Package record

Word Embedding Research Framework for Psychological Science

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Han Wu Shuang BaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An integrative toolbox of word embedding research that provides: (1) a collection of 'pre-trained' static word vectors in the '.RData' compressed format https://psychbruce.github.io/WordVector_RData.pdf; (2) a group of functions to process, analyze, and visualize word vectors; (3) a range of tests to examine conceptual associations, including the Word Embedding Association Test doi:10.1126/science.aal4230 and the Relative Norm Distance doi:10.1073/pnas.1720347115, with permutation test of significance; and (4) a set of training methods to locally train (static) word vectors from text corpora, including 'Word2Vec' doi:10.48550/arXiv.1301.3781, 'GloVe' doi:10.3115/v1/D14-1162, and 'FastText' doi:10.48550/arXiv.1607.04606.

Changes in 2025.11

Moved CRAN packages text2vec, word2vec, rsparse, fastTextR from Imports to Suggests.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PsychWordVec", 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("psychbruce/PsychWordVec")

Development version from psychbruce/PsychWordVec. 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-psychwordvec

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-PsychWordVec

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-PsychWordVec

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: 2.7 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
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-11
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2025.11

READMEYes · 602 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2025.11Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 25 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 35%8 run in a plain check · 14 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 24%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,997 · ~10/day · ~308/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

83090 days

3.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

psychbruce/psychwordvec ↗Account: psychbruce

25Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

69Commits

1Commit identities

word-embeddingsword-vectorspsychologynatural-language-processingcosine-similarityfasttextnlpr

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 69 commits · Last activity 2026-03-07

Responsiveness

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PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psychbruce/psychwordvec on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-07

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PsychWordVec adds 160 packages (78 with compiled code, 137 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (14)

bruceR dplyr stringr data.table purrr vroom cli ggplot2 ggrepel corrplot psych Rtsne rgl qgraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

text text2vec word2vec rsparse fastTextR wordsalad sweater glue

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

FMAT

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Han Wu Shuang Bao

Author, Maintainer · added in 2025.8

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Han-Wu-Shuang Bao

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 2025.3

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2025.11Latest
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2025-11-30 · current release · diff ↗
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2025-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
text_init, text_model_download, text_model_remove, text_to_vec, text_unmask
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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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0.3.1
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2023-03-03 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2022-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
data_wordvec_normalize, get_wordvecs, tab_similarity_cross

added 5 exports
load_embed, load_wordvec, normalize, pattern, plot_network
0.2.0
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2022-12-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
as_matrix, data_wordvec_reshape

added 14 exports
as_embed, cos_dist, cos_sim, dict_expand, dict_reliability, orth_procrustes, plot_similarity, sum_wordvec, tab_similarity_cross, text_init, text_model_download, text_model_remove, text_to_vec, text_unmask
0.1.2
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2022-11-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
as_matrix, as_wordvec
0.1.0
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2022-08-22
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-22
Total releases: 11 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 3.5 MB / 1 file
Download size: 3.6 MB

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Format

Bao, H. W. S. (2025). PsychWordVec: Word Embedding Research Framework for Psychological Science (Version 2025.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PsychWordVec

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PsychWordVec version 2025.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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