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

2.2.3Package record

Easily Access Song Lyrics from Genius.com

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Josiah ParryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Easily access song lyrics in a tidy way.

Changes in 2.2.3

As illustrated in PR #55, all functionality of genius had been broken due to the changes with genius

This patch release

brings back full functionality of the package;
utilizes pivot_wider() instead of spread();
removes readr as a dependency;
utilizes session() instead of html_session() from {rvest} since it has been superceded.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

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.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 25%2 run in a plain check · 6 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 62%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

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How downloads are counted

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.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Josiah Parry

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1.0 (2019)

Nathan Barr

Author, Contributor

Chris Billingham

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Evan Oppenheimer

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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
record
2021-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-05-28
2.2.2
record
2020-05-28 · diff ↗
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
record
2019-05-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
calc_self_sim, possible_url
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.1.0
record
2019-03-06
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-06
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 in 2.2.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2

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 October 25, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=genius

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 genius version 2.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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