R Observatory: Metrics for genius version 2.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2022-12-11. Its history is shown below.

Reason: the request of the maintainer

Details below reflect version 2.2.3, its last release before removal.

genius

2.2.3

Easily Access Song Lyrics from Genius.com

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Josiah Parry4 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Easily access song lyrics in a tidy way.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/genius/genius_2.2.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "genius_2.2.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (2.2.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("josiahparry/genius")

Development version from josiahparry/genius. 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-genius

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

# 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-genius

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

92%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 38%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

Releases R versions

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Also on52 r2u1 autocran1K conda_forge

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (10)

dplyr rvest stringr tidyr purrr tibble tidytext reshape2 rlang magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Josiah Parry

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Josiah Parry

Author, Maintainer

Nathan Barr

Author, Contributor

Contributors (3)

Nathan Barr

Author, Contributor

Chris Billingham

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Evan Oppenheimer

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-12-11
the request of the maintainer
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.3
2021-07-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.2
2020-05-28 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-05-28
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-05-03
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.2.0
2019-05-05 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.1.0
2019-03-06
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

Total releases: 4
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
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("genius")

Format

Parry, J., Barr, N., Billingham, C., & Oppenheimer, E. (n.d.). genius: Easily Access Song Lyrics from Genius.com (Version 2.2.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 14, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=genius

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 genius version 2.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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