R Observatory: Metrics for gendertext version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gendertext

0.1.0

Detect Gendered Words in Text and Suggest Neutral Alternatives

0packages depend

462downloads / year

92.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by S M Mashrur Arafin AyonFirst published 2026-06-181 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Identifies gendered words and phrases in text using a built in dictionary of more than two hundred gendered terms paired with gender neutral alternatives. Reports the share of gendered language in a text, lists every gendered term found together with its suggested neutral replacement, and can rewrite a text in gender neutral form. Plain text files are read with base R, while other document formats such as PDF and Word are supported through the optional 'readtext' package. The dictionary is informed by published guidance on gender inclusive language, including the United Nations guidelines https://www.un.org/en/gender-inclusive-language/ and the European Parliament guidance on gender neutral language.

Install

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

install.packages("gendertext", 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("mashrur-ayon/gendertext")

Development version from mashrur-ayon/gendertext. 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-gendertext

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-gendertext

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-gendertext

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

92.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-06-19
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

462

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,784 · ~1/day · ~39/mo

Releases R versions

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15630 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mashrur-ayon/gendertext

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License MIT · Last activity 2026-06-11

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mashrur-ayon/gendertext on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr readtext rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

S M Mashrur Arafin Ayon

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

S M Mashrur Arafin Ayon

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Rodaba Zaman Adrita

Author, Data contributor

Copyright holders (1)

S M Mashrur Arafin Ayon

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-06-18 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-18
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 2.2 KB / 1 file
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gendertext")

Format

Arafin Ayon, S. M. M., & Zaman Adrita, R. (2026). gendertext: Detect Gendered Words in Text and Suggest Neutral Alternatives (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gendertext

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gendertext version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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