R Observatory: Metrics for corpustools version 0.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

corpustools needs quanteda, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Oct 22.

corpustools

0.5.2Package record

Managing, Querying and Analyzing Tokenized Text

1packages dependsuggested by 1

8.8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kasper WelbersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides text analysis in R, focusing on the use of a tokenized text format. In this format, the positions of tokens are maintained, and each token can be annotated (e.g., part-of-speech tags, dependency relations). Prominent features include advanced Lucene-like querying for specific tokens or contexts (e.g., documents, sentences), similarity statistics for words and documents, exporting to DTM for compatibility with many text analysis packages, and the possibility to reconstruct original text from tokens to facilitate interpretation.

Install

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

install.packages("corpustools", 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("kasperwelbers/corpustools")

Development version from kasperwelbers/corpustools. 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-corpustools

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-corpustools

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-corpustools

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘tCorpus-cash-annotate_rsyntax.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-code_dictionary.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-code_features.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-context.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-deduplicate.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-delete_columns.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-feats_to_columns.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-feature_subset.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-fold_rsyntax.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-get.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-lda_fit.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-merge.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-preprocess.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-replace_dictionary.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-search_recode.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-set.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-set_levels.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-set_name.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-subset.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-subset_query.Rd’
  ‘tCorpus-cash-udpipe_clauses.Rd’ ‘tCorpus-cash-udpipe_quotes.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.2

READMEYes · 207 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 0.5.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 104
Examples that run: 80%65 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition) · 12 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to corpustools

How these are measured

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,624 · ~24/day · ~737/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62430 days

1.4K90 days

8.8K1 year

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Also on403 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kasperwelbers/corpustools ↗Account: kasperwelbers

32Stars

11Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

185Commits

4Commit identities

185 commits · Last activity 2025-07-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-02-03 · 312026-07-07 · 32

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/kasperwelbers/corpustools on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing corpustools adds 39 packages (24 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (16)

methodswordcloud stringi Rcpp R6 udpipe digest data.table quanteda (>= 1.5.1)igraph tokenbrowser RNewsflowMatrixparallelpbapply rsyntax

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppProgress

Suggests (5)

testthat tm topicmodels knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

quantedafix by Oct 22

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

text2sdg

Suggests, most downloaded first

LexisNexisTools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Kasper Welbers

Author, Maintainer since 0.3 (2017)

Wouter van Atteveldt

Author

Releases (14)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.2Latest
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2025-07-07 · 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
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2023-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.10
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2022-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.9
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2022-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
export_span_annotations, untokenize
0.4.8
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2021-06-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.7
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2021-02-28 · diff ↗
0.4.6
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2021-02-03 · diff ↗
0.4.5
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2021-01-13 · diff ↗
0.4.4
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2021-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
agg_label, aggregate_rsyntax, fold_rsyntax, tc_plot_tree, transform_rsyntax, udpipe_clause_tqueries, udpipe_quote_tqueries, udpipe_simplify, udpipe_spanquote_tqueries, udpipe_tcorpus
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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0.4.2
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2020-01-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
agg_tcorpus, count_tcorpus
0.4.1
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2019-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
compare_documents_dtm, list_resources, resources_path, set_resources_path

added 19 exports
browse_hits, browse_texts, compare_corpus, compare_documents, compare_subset, feature_associations, feature_stats, get_dfm, get_dtm, get_kwic, melt_quanteda_dict, search_contexts, search_dictionary, search_features, semnet, semnet_window, show_udpipe_models, subset_query, top_features
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.3
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
compare_documents_dtm, list_resources, resources_path, set_resources_path
0.3.1
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2017-12-13 · diff ↗
0.3
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2017-10-03
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-03
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 292 KB / 4 files
Download size: 718 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("corpustools")

Format

Welbers, K., & van Atteveldt, W. (2025). corpustools: Managing, Querying and Analyzing Tokenized Text (Version 0.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.corpustools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for corpustools version 0.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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