R Observatory: Metrics for conText version 3.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

conText

3.0.1Package record

'a la Carte' on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sofia AvilaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A fast, flexible and transparent framework to estimate context-specific word and short document embeddings using the 'a la carte' embeddings approach developed by Khodak et al. (2018) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.05388 and evaluate hypotheses about covariate effects on embeddings using the regression framework developed by Rodriguez et al. (2021)doi:10.1017/S0003055422001228. New version of the package applies a new estimator to measure the distance between word embeddings as described in Green et al. (2025) doi:10.1017/pan.2024.22.

Install

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

install.packages("conText", 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("prodriguezsosa/conText")

Development version from prodriguezsosa/conText. 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-context

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-conText

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-conText

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: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-19
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-03
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0.1

READMEYes · 317 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 43 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%23 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Quick Start Guide

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,114 · ~14/day · ~434/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47430 days

1.4K90 days

5.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on159 r2u17 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

prodriguezsosa/context ↗Account: prodriguezsosa

112Stars

22Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

200Commits

9Commit identities

200 commits · Last activity 2026-04-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 81%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-18 · 1062026-09-23 · 112

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/prodriguezsosa/context on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository has an AI review tool set up.

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: some accepting its review suggestions, count not recorded

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing conText adds 58 packages (35 with compiled code, 51 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (16)

dplyrMatrixquanteda text2vec (>= 0.6)reshape2 fastDummies stringr (>= 1.4.0)tidyr ggplot2 broom foreachmethodsestimatrutilsstatstidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

SnowballC hunspell knitr rmarkdown formatR testthat doParallel data.table RcppParallel

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 (5)

Sofia Avila

Maintainer since 3.0.0 (2025), Author · added in 3.0.0

Pedro L. Rodriguez

Author, Copyright holder

Arthur Spirling

Author

Brandon Stewart

Author

Christopher Barrie

Contributor

Previously maintained by Pedro L. Rodriguez (1.0.0 to 1.4.3).

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.1Latest
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2026-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2025-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_grouped_similarity
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.3
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2023-02-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-14
1.4.2
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2023-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dem_sample
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-25
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-04-05
1.1.0
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2022-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_ncs, ncs
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-03-28
check problems were not corrected in time
1.0.0
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2021-10-25
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-25
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 2.0 MB / 3 files
Download size: 2.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("conText")

Format

Avila, S., Barrie, C., Rodriguez, P. L., Spirling, A., & Stewart, B. (2026). conText: 'a la Carte' on Text (ConText) Embedding Regression (Version 3.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.conText

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for conText version 3.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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