R Observatory: Metrics for fastText version 1.0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastText

1.0.8Package record

Efficient Learning of Word Representations and Sentence Classification

1packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

74.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lampros MouselimisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An interface to the 'fastText' https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification. The 'fastText' algorithm is explained in detail in (i) "Enriching Word Vectors with subword Information", Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, Tomas Mikolov, 2017, doi:10.1162/tacl_a_00051; (ii) "Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification", Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Tomas Mikolov, 2017, doi:10.18653/v1/e17-2068; (iii) "FastText.zip: Compressing text classification models", Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Matthijs Douze, Herve Jegou, Tomas Mikolov, 2016, doi:10.48550/arXiv.1612.03651.

Changes in 1.0.8

I fixed a bug in the *'language_identification()'* function where input text that could be interpreted as a directory path (e.g. "../.." or "data" when a data/ folder exists) caused an error. The fix replaces file.exists() with utils::file_test(op = "-f", ...) to correctly distinguish regular files from directories (see Github issues: https://github.com/mlampros/fastText/issues/6 and https://github.com/mlampros/fastText/issues/3)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fastText", 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("mlampros/fastText")

Development version from mlampros/fastText. 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-fasttext

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-fastText

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-fastText

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: 4.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.8

READMEYes · 226 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.8Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (4 internal)
Examples that run: 80%12 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 26%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,067 · ~16/day · ~494/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

46930 days

1.4K90 days

5.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

mlampros/fasttext ↗Account: mlampros

45Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

21Commits

3Commit identities

fasttextrcpp

21 commits · Last activity 2026-06-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-04 · 452026-07-07 · 45

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlampros/fasttext on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Issue templates

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-12

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fastText adds 19 packages (9 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.3

Imports (7)

Rcpp ggplot2gridutilsglue data.tablestats

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

testthat covr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

easieRnmt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Lampros Mouselimis

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Facebook Inc

Copyright holder

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-14
Total releases: 9 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.3
Download size: 2.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fastText")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 fastText version 1.0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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