R Observatory: Metrics for fastTextR version 2.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastTextR

2.1.1Package record

An Interface to the 'fastText' Library

1packages dependsuggested by 1

5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interface to the 'fastText' library https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText. The package can be used for text classification and to learn word vectors. An example how to use 'fastTextR' can be found in the 'README' file.

Changes in 2.1.1

Fixed C++20 deprecation warnings for implicit this capture in lambda expressions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fastTextR", 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("EmilHvitfeldt/fastTextR")

Development version from EmilHvitfeldt/fastTextR. 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-fasttextr

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-fastTextR

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-fastTextR

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: 4.3 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

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 15%2 run in a plain check · 11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 69%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,349 · ~14/day · ~421/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41130 days

1.1K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on378 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

emilhvitfeldt/fasttextr ↗Account: EmilHvitfeldt

5Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

20Commits

2Commit identities

20 commits · Last activity 2023-12-11 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (2.1.0.9000) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2025-06-26 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/emilhvitfeldt/fasttextr on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fastTextR adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, slam 54 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsgraphicsRcpp slam

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

wordsalad

Suggests, most downloaded first

PsychWordVec

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer since 2.0.0 (2020) · added in 2.0.0

Florian Schwendinger

Author

Previously maintained by Florian Schwendinger (1.0).

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.1Latest
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2026-02-10 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.1.0
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2023-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ft_sentence_vectors
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.1
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2022-10-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.0
record
2020-09-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
ft.control, normalize, predict.supervised_model, get_words, get_word_vectors, save.fasttext, read.fasttext

added 11 exports
ft_control, ft_train, ft_predict, ft_test, ft_words, ft_word_vectors, ft_nearest_neighbors, ft_analogies, ft_normalize, ft_load, ft_save
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0
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2017-05-12
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-12
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 683 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fastTextR")

Format

Hvitfeldt, E., & Schwendinger, F. (2026). fastTextR: An Interface to the 'fastText' Library (Version 2.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fastTextR

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 fastTextR version 2.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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