R Observatory: Metrics for act version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

act

1.3.1Package record

Aligned Corpus Toolkit

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Oliver EhmerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

The Aligned Corpus Toolkit (act) is designed for linguists that work with time aligned transcription data. It offers functions to import and export various annotation file formats ('ELAN' .eaf, 'EXMARaLDA .exb and 'Praat' .TextGrid files), create print transcripts in the style of conversation analysis, search transcripts (span searches across multiple annotations, search in normalized annotations, make concordances etc.), export and re-import search results (.csv and 'Excel' .xlsx format), create cuts for the search results (print transcripts, audio/video cuts using 'FFmpeg' and video sub titles in 'Subrib title' .srt format), modify the data in a corpus (search/replace, delete, filter etc.), interact with 'Praat' using 'Praat'-scripts, and exchange data with the 'rPraat' package. The package is itself written in R and may be expanded by other users.

Install

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

install.packages("act", 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("oliverehmer/act")

Development version from oliverehmer/act. 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-act

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-act

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-act

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: 2.5 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 1.3.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 77includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%76 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,236 · ~12/day · ~370/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53530 days

1.5K90 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on102 r2u33 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

oliverehmer/act ↗Account: oliverehmer

5Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

170Commits

1Commit identities

170 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.3.8, ahead of CRAN 1.3.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-08-15 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/oliverehmer/act on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-04-15
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.61 commit · Apr 2026
Claude Opus 4.71 commit · Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing act adds 20 packages (11 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openxlsx 1.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

methodsstringr stringitoolstextutilsutilsprogress XML xml2 openxlsx

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Oliver Ehmer

Author, Maintainer since 0.94 (2020)

Releases (10)

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
1.3.1Latest
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2023-06-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0
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2023-04-05 · diff ↗
1.2.7
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2023-03-02 · diff ↗
1.2.4
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2023-02-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
search_transcript_content, search_transcript_fulltext
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.9
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2021-09-26 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2021-06-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
search_meta

added 3 exports
search_cuts, search_makefilter, transcripts_merge2
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.2
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2021-04-19 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2021-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
search_openresult_inelan, tiers_add, tiers_delete
1.0
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2021-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 25 exports
corpus_alldata, corpus_load, corpus_overview, eaf_export, fulltext_update, media_getpath, media_remove, modify_data_delete, modify_data_delete_empty, modify_data_matrix, modify_data_replace_copy, modify_tiers_rename, modify_tiers_reorder, modify_transcripts_merge, normalize, options_remove, praat_open_result, praat_search_and_open, search_transcript_content, snippets_cutlist, snippets_printtranscript, snippets_printtranscripts_search, textgrid_export, textgrid_import, transcripts_export

added 53 exports
annotations_all, annotations_delete, annotations_delete_empty, annotations_matrix, annotations_replace_copy, corpus_export, corpus_import, export_eaf, export_exb, export_printtranscript, export_rpraat, export_srt, export_textgrid, helper_format_time, helper_tiers_merge_tables, helper_tiers_new_table, helper_tiers_sort_table, helper_transcriptNames_get, helper_transcriptNames_make, helper_transcriptNames_set, import, import_eaf, import_exb, import_rpraat, import_textgrid, info, info_summarized, media_delete, media_getPathToExistingFile, options_delete and 23 more
0.94
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2020-11-04

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-04
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI · relicensed from BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE in 1.0
Bundled data: 34 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("act")

Format

Ehmer, O. (2023). act: Aligned Corpus Toolkit (Version 1.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.act

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 act version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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