R Observatory: Metrics for SemNetDictionaries version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SemNetDictionaries

0.3.0Package record

Dictionaries for the 'SemNetCleaner' Package

1packages depend

8.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander P. ChristensenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements dictionaries that can be used in the 'SemNetCleaner' package. Also includes several functions aimed at facilitating the text cleaning analysis in the 'SemNetCleaner' package. This package is designed to integrate and update word lists and dictionaries based on each user's individual needs by allowing users to store and save their own dictionaries. Dictionaries can be added to the 'SemNetDictionaries' package by submitting user-defined dictionaries to https://github.com/AlexChristensen/SemNetDictionaries.

Changes in 0.3.0

UPDATE: animals, fruits, vegetables, jobs, hot, and good dictionaries (animals 1,252 to 1,285 words, fruits 488 to 481, vegetables 284 to 340, jobs 1,471 to 1,023, hot 281 to 273, good 284 to 316): misspellings, plurals, and spacing and hyphen variants are monikers instead of dictionary entries, words that are not in the category were removed (e.g., conifers in fruits, antonyms in good, first words of longer titles such as "air" in jobs), and common words were added
UPDATE: animals, fruits, vegetables, jobs, hot, and good monikers (animals 245 to 340 words, fruits 35 to 79, vegetables 35 to 70, jobs 117 to 152, hot 15 to 64, good 4 to 41): variants are lower case, every word is a dictionary entry, and a variant is no longer also a dictionary entry (the dictionary accepts its words before monikers are tried)
UPDATE: hot and good only share "beautiful"; a word is in the dictionary where it has its sense
UPDATE: coca and cocaspell monikers have lower case words (words that only differed in case are merged); the 31 cocaspell words with digits (e.g., "mid-1700s", which SemNetCleaner could not recover) and the 5 coca words that are not dictionary entries were removed
UPDATE: general has "cryptocurrency" and not the typo "acceleratorh", and most_common has no duplicates (9,318 words)
UPDATE: load.dictionaries and load.monikers keep what they load for the session, so repeated calls take under 1 ms (about 40 to 95 ms before), including single letters (load.dictionaries("a"))
UPDATE: append.dictionary(textcleaner = TRUE) inserts new words into a sorted dictionary instead of sorting it again when it is the dictionary that the previous call returned (about 290 ms to about 6 ms for cocaspell)
UPDATE: load.dictionaries gives a warning of class semnet_dictionary_not_found (a message before) for a dictionary that cannot be found, leaves it out, and returns character(0) (NULL before) when none are found
UPDATE: load.dictionaries accepts names in any case, ignores a .dictionary suffix, and only uses add.path (a path that does not exist is an error) for dictionaries that are not in the package
UPDATE: load.dictionaries looks for custom dictionaries in the global environment, add.path, the working directory, and tempdir(); it no longer searches the Desktop, Downloads, or the folders inside the working directory
UPDATE: find.dictionaries no longer searches the Desktop, Downloads, or the working directory recursively, finds dictionaries in the global environment, and returns nothing for a name that does not exist (it returned every dictionary)
UPDATE: load.monikers returns character(0) (list() with vector = FALSE) for dictionaries without monikers (logical(0) and NA before)

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UPDATE: dictionaries(quiet = FALSE) prints the dictionaries (any value for quiet was quiet)
UPDATE: the startup message is plain text (no ANSI escape codes)
UPDATE: dependencies: utils is Imports; easycsv, ggplot2, gridExtra, patchwork, shiny, shinyalert, shinyjs, and markdown are dropped; tcltk (to choose a directory), testthat, and withr are Suggests
UPDATE: the vignette describes the monikers and the new load.dictionaries behavior
ADD: append.dictionary(textcleaner = TRUE) gives a warning of class semnet_dictionary_words_not_saved when the dictionary file already exists and the dictionary argument has words that the file does not have (only words that are not in the dictionary argument are added to an existing file, so those words were not saved)
ADD: recursive argument in find.dictionaries (default FALSE)
ADD: testthat tests (there were none), including tests of the rules for dictionaries and monikers and of the size of the installed data
ADD: GitHub workflow that runs R CMD check on Linux, macOS, and Windows
REMOVE: ShinyWoRdle (the Wordle site was removed) and inst/ShinyWoRdle
REMOVE: package argument of append.dictionary (defunct, it only worked on the maintainer's computer)
FIX: load.dictionaries failed with more than 10 words (a corpus) that include a single letter (e.g., "a")
FIX: load.dictionaries() without input failed with argument is of length zero; it now stops with a clear error
FIX: load.monikers returned its input when it had more than 10 words
FIX: append.dictionary(textcleaner = TRUE) failed (object 'dict.words' not found) unless the name of the dictionary argument contained .dictionary; the dictionary is now the argument whose expression contains dictionary (a string such as "dictionary" is a new word) or, without one, the arguments after the first
FIX: dictionaries failed when the package was loaded from source (e.g., devtools::load_all())

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SemNetDictionaries", 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("AlexChristensen/SemNetDictionaries")

Development version from AlexChristensen/SemNetDictionaries. 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-semnetdictionaries

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-SemNetDictionaries

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-SemNetDictionaries

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: 1.9 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 0.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 27includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%26 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Appendix Dictionaries HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,261 · ~23/day · ~685/mo

Releases R versions

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55230 days

1.4K90 days

8.2K1 year

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Repository

alexchristensen/semnetdictionaries ↗Account: AlexChristensen

4Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

129Commits

1Commit identities

rsemantic-network-analysisdictionaries

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 129 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-04-17 · 42026-07-07 · 4

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PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alexchristensen/semnetdictionaries on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SemNetDictionaries adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

htmlTable knitr rmarkdowntcltktestthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SemNetCleaner

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People & History

People (1)

Alexander P. Christensen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (13)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-24
Total releases: 13 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 2.4 MB / 21 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("SemNetDictionaries")

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

It points to 10.1037/met0000463.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SemNetDictionaries version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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