R Observatory: Metrics for SemanticDistance version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SemanticDistance

0.1.1Package record

Compute Semantic Distance Between Text Constituents

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

19.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jamie ReillyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Cleans and formats language transcripts guided by a series of transformation options (e.g., lemmatize words, omit stopwords, split strings across rows). 'SemanticDistance' computes two distinct metrics of cosine semantic distance (experiential and embedding). These values reflect pairwise cosine distance between different elements or chunks of a language sample. 'SemanticDistance' can process monologues (e.g., stories, ordered text), dialogues (e.g., conversation transcripts), word pairs arrayed in columns, and unordered word lists. Users specify options for how they wish to chunk distance calculations. These options include: rolling ngram-to-word distance (window of n-words to each new word), ngram-to-ngram distance (2-word chunk to the next 2-word chunk), pairwise distance between words arrayed in columns, matrix comparisons (i.e., all possible pairwise distances between words in an unordered list), turn-by-turn distance (talker to talker in a dialogue transcript). 'SemanticDistance' includes visualization options for analyzing distances as time series data and simple semantic network dynamics (e.g., clustering, undirected graph network).

Install

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

install.packages("SemanticDistance", 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("Reilly-ConceptsCognitionLab/SemanticDistance")

Development version from Reilly-ConceptsCognitionLab/SemanticDistance. 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-semanticdistance

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-SemanticDistance

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-SemanticDistance

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: 6.1 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 OK2026-07-04

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-06-21
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-11
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 2,466 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 53%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,333 · ~15/day · ~444/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

reilly-conceptscognitionlab/semanticdistance ↗Organization: Reilly-ConceptsCognitionLab

2Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

176Commits

2Commit identities

cosine-distancecosine-similarityembeddingslexical-semanticnlppsycholinguisticssemantics

License file reads as LGPL-3.0 · 176 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 33
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-09 · 22026-07-25 · 2

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/reilly-conceptscognitionlab/semanticdistance on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-12

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SemanticDistance adds 72 packages (36 with compiled code, 85 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (22)

apeclusterdendextend dplyrgraphicshttr igraph lsa magrittr purrr rlangstatsstringi stringr textstem tidyselect tm tidyr textcleantoolsutilswesanderson

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Jamie Reilly

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2025)

Hannah R. Mechtenberg

Author

Emily B. Myers

Author

Jonathan E. Peelle

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1Latest
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2025-09-01 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-01
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SemanticDistance")

Format

Reilly, J., Mechtenberg, H. R., Myers, E. B., & Peelle, J. E. (2025). SemanticDistance: Compute Semantic Distance Between Text Constituents (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SemanticDistance

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SemanticDistance version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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