R Observatory: Metrics for dhmeasures version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dhmeasures

1.0Package record

Digital History Measures

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steph BuongiornoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides statistical functions to aid in the analysis of contemporary and historical corpora. These transparent functions may be useful to anyone, and were designed with the social sciences and humanities in mind. JSD (Jensen-Shannon Divergence) is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions. The JSD and Original JSD functions expand on existing functions, by calculating the JSD for distributions of words in text groups for all pairwise groups provided (Drost (2018) doi:10.21105/joss.00765). The Log Likelihood function is inspired by the work of digital historian Jo Guldi (Guldi (2022) https://github.com/joguldi/digital-history). Also includes helper functions that can count word frequency in each text grouping, and remove stop words.

Install

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

install.packages("dhmeasures", 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("stephbuon/dhmeasures")

Development version from stephbuon/dhmeasures. 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-dhmeasures

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-dhmeasures

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-dhmeasures

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: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-04-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK5 OK2026-03-24

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,924 · ~7/day · ~220/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29930 days

82890 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on204 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stephbuon/dhmeasures ↗Account: stephbuon

0Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-04-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

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/stephbuon/dhmeasures on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dhmeasures adds 23 packages (14 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, tidytext 2.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp dplyr tidytext

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

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 (2)

Steph Buongiorno

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2026)

Ryan Schaefer

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0Latest
record
2026-03-23 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dhmeasures")

Format

Buongiorno, S., & Schaefer, R. (2026). dhmeasures: Digital History Measures (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dhmeasures

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dhmeasures version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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