R Observatory: Metrics for mallet version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mallet

1.3.0Package record

An R Wrapper for the Java Mallet Topic Modeling Toolkit

0packages dependsuggested by 3

60Kdownloads / year

98.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Måns MagnussonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An R interface for the Java Machine Learning for Language Toolkit (mallet) http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ to estimate probabilistic topic models, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation. We can use the R package to read textual data into mallet from R objects, run the Java implementation of mallet directly in R, and extract results as R objects. The Mallet toolkit has many functions, this wrapper focuses on the topic modeling sub-package written by David Mimno. The package uses the rJava package to connect to a JVM.

Install

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

install.packages("mallet", 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("mimno/RMallet")

Development version from mimno/RMallet. 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-mallet

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-mallet

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-mallet

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-06

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 59%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 65%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (1)

mallet HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

60K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,989 · ~164/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3K30 days

9.3K90 days

60K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mimno/rmallet ↗Account: mimno

39Stars

10Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

155Commits

4Commit identities

155 commits · Last activity 2022-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,990
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-28 · 392026-07-07 · 39

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/mimno/rmallet on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mallet adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 900 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rJava 624 KB, checkmate 247 KB, backports 29 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.3

Imports (2)

rJava checkmate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown dplyr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidytext LDAvis topics

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Måns Magnusson

Maintainer since 1.3.0 (2022), Author · added in 1.3.0

David Mimno

Author, Copyright holder

Previously maintained by David Mimno (1.0).

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-20
1.3.0Latest
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2022-07-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 24 exports
MalletLDA, load.mallet.instances, load.mallet.state, mallet.doc.topics, mallet.import, mallet.jar, mallet.read.dir, mallet.stoplist.file.path, mallet.subset.topic.words, mallet.supported.stoplists, mallet.top.words, mallet.topic.hclust, mallet.topic.labels, mallet.topic.model.load, mallet.topic.model.read, mallet.topic.model.save, mallet.topic.model.write, mallet.topic.words, mallet.word.freqs, mallet_jar, mallet_stoplist_file_path, mallet_supported_stoplists, save.mallet.instances, save.mallet.state
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-06-14
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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1.0
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2013-08-09
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-08-09
Total releases: 2 / 13 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.3
Bundled data: 503 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mallet")

Format

Magnusson, M., & Mimno, D. (2022). mallet: An R Wrapper for the Java Mallet Topic Modeling Toolkit (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mallet

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 mallet version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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