R Observatory: Metrics for WhatsR version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WhatsR

1.0.6

Parsing, Anonymizing and Visualizing Exported 'WhatsApp' Chat Logs

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

80.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Julian KohneFirst published 2023-05-265 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Imports 'WhatsApp' chat logs and parses them into a usable dataframe object. The parser works on chats exported from Android or iOS phones and on Linux, macOS and Windows. The parser has multiple options for extracting smileys and emojis from the messages, extracting URLs and domains from the messages, extracting names and types of sent media files from the messages, extracting timestamps from messages, extracting and anonymizing author names from messages. Can be used to create anonymized versions of data.

Install

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

install.packages("WhatsR", 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("gesiscss/WhatsR")

Development version from gesiscss/WhatsR. 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-whatsr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-WhatsR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

80.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

18

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-06
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,565 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

Releases R versions

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19630 days

64190 days

2.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gesiscss/whatsr

28Stars

6Forks

2Open issues

3Open PRs

8Releases

141Commits

4Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 141 commits · Last activity 2025-10-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-15 · 262026-07-07 · 28

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gesiscss/whatsr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

stringi qdapRegex readr tokenizers data.table ggplot2 anytime mgsubstatsqdap ggwordcloud dplyr ragg checkmate visNetwork lubridatemethodsleaflet

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

extrafont tm testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Julian Kohne

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Julian Kohne

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.6Latest
2025-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.4
2024-01-29 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2023-11-21 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-11-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-11-15
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.1
2023-06-02 · diff ↗
1.0
2023-05-26
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-26
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WhatsR")

Format

Kohne, J. (2025). WhatsR: Parsing, Anonymizing and Visualizing Exported 'WhatsApp' Chat Logs (Version 1.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WhatsR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for WhatsR version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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