R Observatory: Metrics for RNewsflow version 1.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RNewsflow

1.2.8Package record

Tools for Comparing Text Messages Across Time and Media

1packages depend

8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kasper WelbersCRAN page ↗

A collection of tools for measuring the similarity of text messages and tracing the flow of messages over time and across media.

Install

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

install.packages("RNewsflow", 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-rnewsflow

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-RNewsflow

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-RNewsflow

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘compare_documents.Rd’ ‘term_char_sim.Rd’ ‘term_union.Rd’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'compare_documents.Rd' 'term_char_sim.Rd' 'term_union.Rd'

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Kasper Welbers <kasperwelbers@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Kasper", "Welbers", "&", "Wouter"),
                      family = "van Atteveldt",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Kasper",
                      family = "Welbers",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "kasperwelbers@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR3 OK, 10 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-04-10

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ERROR3 OK, 10 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.8

READMEYes · 160 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 1.2.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to RNewsflow

How these are measured

Downloads

8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,080 · ~22/day · ~667/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49030 days

1.2K90 days

8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on364 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RNewsflow adds 29 packages (18 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.3.0igraphMatrix

Imports (7)

stringi scales wordcloud data.tablemethodsquanteda Rcpp (>= 0.12.12)

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppEigen RcppProgress (>= 0.4.2)

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

corpustools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Kasper Welbers

Wouter van Atteveldt

Maintainer since 1.0 (2016)

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
1.2.8Latest
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2024-04-03 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.7
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2023-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
delete.duplicates, directed.network.plot, document.network, document.network.plot, documents.compare, filter.window, network.aggregate, newsflow.compare, only.first.match, show.window, term.day.dist
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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
1.2.6
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2021-04-07 · diff ↗
1.2.5
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2020-11-02 · diff ↗
1.2.4
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2020-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.2.3
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2020-02-17 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2019-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
as_document_network, compare_documents, create_document_network, delete_duplicates, directed_network_plot, document_network_plot, filter_window, network_aggregate, newsflow_compare, only_first_match, show_window, term_day_dist
1.1.1
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2019-07-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_doc_terms, get_overlap_terms
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-04-01
1.1.0
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2019-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
create_queries, hourdiff_range_thresholds, tcrossprod_sparse, term_char_sim, term_intersect, term_union
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-12
it used archived package 'RTextTools' unconditionally
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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
1.0.1
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2016-03-29 · diff ↗
1.0
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2016-02-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-21
Total releases: 11 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 1.2.1
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 212 KB / 2 files
Download size: 381 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RNewsflow")

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RNewsflow version 1.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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