R Observatory: Metrics for childeswordfreq version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

childeswordfreq

0.2.0

Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES

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2.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nahar AlbudoorFirst published 2025-04-082 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for extracting word and phrase frequencies from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database via the 'childesr' API. Supports type-level word counts, token-mode searches with simple wildcard patterns and part-of-speech filters, optional stemming, and Zipf-scaled frequencies. Provides normalization per number of tokens or utterances, speaker-role breakdowns, dataset summaries, and export to Excel workbooks for reproducible child language research. The CHILDES database is maintained at https://talkbank.org/childes/.

Install

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

install.packages("childeswordfreq", 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("n-albudoor/childeswordfreq")

Development version from n-albudoor/childeswordfreq. 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-childeswordfreq

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-childeswordfreq

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 189 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 40%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,410 · ~7/day · ~200/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ n-albudoor/childeswordfreq

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Last activity 2025-11-15

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

Checks run against github.com/n-albudoor/childeswordfreq on 2026-08-16.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (12)

cachem childesr dplyr memoise rappdirs readr rlangstatstibble tidyrutilswritexl

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none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Nahar Albudoor

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Nahar Albudoor

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Package Timeline

2 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
0.2.0Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-08
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Download size: 28 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("childeswordfreq")

Format

Albudoor, N. (2025). childeswordfreq: Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.childeswordfreq

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for childeswordfreq version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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