R Observatory: Metrics for discoverableresearch version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

discoverableresearch

0.0.1Package record

Checks Title, Abstract and Keywords to Optimise Discoverability

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal HaddawayCRAN page ↗

A suite of tools are provided here to support authors in making their research more discoverable. check_keywords() - this function checks the keywords to assess whether they are already represented in the title and abstract. check_fields() - this function compares terminology used across the title, abstract and keywords to assess where terminological diversity (i.e. the use of synonyms) could increase the likelihood of the record being identified in a search. The function looks for terms in the title and abstract that also exist in other fields and highlights these as needing attention. suggest_keywords() - this function takes a full text document and produces a list of unigrams, bigrams and trigrams (1-, 2- or 2-word phrases) present in the full text after removing stop words (words with a low utility in natural language processing) that do not occur in the title or abstract that may be suitable candidates for keywords. suggest_title() - this function takes a full text document and produces a list of the most frequently used unigrams, bigrams and trigrams after removing stop words that do not occur in the abstract or keywords that may be suitable candidates for title words. check_title() - this function carries out a number of sub tasks: 1) it compares the length (number of words) of the title with the mean length of titles in major bibliographic databases to assess whether the title is likely to be too short; 2) it assesses the proportion of stop words in the title to highlight titles with low utility in search engines that strip out stop words; 3) it compares the title with a given sample of record titles from an .ris import and calculates a similarity score based on phrase overlap. This highlights the level of uniqueness of the title. This version of the package also contains functions currently in a non-CRAN package called 'litsearchr' https://github.com/elizagrames/litsearchr.

Install

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

install.packages("discoverableresearch", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-discoverableresearch

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-discoverableresearch

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-discoverableresearch

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

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘dplyr’ ‘readr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-10
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.1

READMEYes · 530 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 92%12 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Assessing the discoverability of a research record based on title, abstract and keywords using discoverableresearch v0.0.0.9000 HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,120 · ~7/day · ~220/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30130 days

73890 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing discoverableresearch adds 41 packages (22 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

dplyrgraphicsmagrittr ngram readrstatsstringdist stringi stopwords synthesisr tm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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 (1)

Neal Haddaway

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2020)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.1Latest
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2020-10-10 · current release
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-10
Total releases: 1 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 392 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("discoverableresearch")

Format

Haddaway, N. (2020). discoverableresearch: Checks Title, Abstract and Keywords to Optimise Discoverability (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.discoverableresearch

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 discoverableresearch version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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