R Observatory: Metrics for boilerpipeR version 1.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

boilerpipeR

1.3.2Package record

Interface to the Boilerpipe Java Library

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mario AnnauCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generic Extraction of main text content from HTML files; removal of ads, sidebars and headers using the boilerpipe https://github.com/kohlschutter/boilerpipe Java library. The extraction heuristics from boilerpipe show a robust performance for a wide range of web site templates.

Install

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

install.packages("boilerpipeR", 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("mannau/boilerpipeR")

Development version from mannau/boilerpipeR. 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-boilerpiper

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-boilerpipeR

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-boilerpipeR

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

NOTERd filesr-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

checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:13: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:14: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:15: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:16: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:17: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:18: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?
checkRd: (-1) Extractor.Rd:19: Lost braces in \itemize; meant \describe ?

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

Maintainer: ‘Mario Annau <mario.annau@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("See", "AUTHORS"),
                      family = "file.",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Mario",
                      family = "Annau",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "mario.annau@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 1.3.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 78%7 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the tm.plugin.webmining Package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,213 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35930 days

1K90 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on122 r2u22 autocran139 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mannau/boilerpiper ↗Account: mannau

21Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

39Commits

2Commit identities

39 commits · Last activity 2021-05-19

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2021-07-31 · 212026-07-07 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mannau/boilerpiper on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing boilerpipeR adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 624 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rJava 624 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

rJava

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

RCurl

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 (from the free-text Author field) (1)

See AUTHORS file.

· added in 1.2.2

Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mario Annau

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Releases (6)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-21
Total releases: 6 / 14 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0)
Bundled data: 20 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.6 MB

Appears in task views

Natural Language Processing Web Technologies and Services

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citation("boilerpipeR")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for boilerpipeR version 1.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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