R Observatory: Metrics for covfefe version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

covfefe

1.0.0

Political Linguistics Toolkit - Gaffes, Phonetics, and Text Transformation

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

85.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael KirchnerFirst published 2017-06-062 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A comprehensive toolkit for political linguistics featuring a museum of famous digital gaffes, phonetic transformation algorithms (Soundex, consonant shifts), QWERTY keyboard geometry for typo simulation, syllable parsing, word blending (portmanteau creation), and text corruption analysis. Originally inspired by the infamous "covfefe" tweet of 2017.

Install

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

install.packages("covfefe", 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("mkirch/covfefe")

Development version from mkirch/covfefe. 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-covfefe

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-covfefe

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-covfefe

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

85.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 140 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,615 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mkirch/covfefe

34Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

21Commits

1Contributors

covfefe

License GPL-3.0 · 21 commits · Last activity 2026-01-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-07-23 · 332026-07-07 · 34

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mkirch/covfefe on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

tokenizers

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Kirchner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Kirchner

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-06
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 7 files
Download size: 29 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("covfefe")

Format

Kirchner, M. (2026). covfefe: Political Linguistics Toolkit - Gaffes, Phonetics, and Text Transformation (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.covfefe

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for covfefe version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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