R Observatory: Metrics for pangoling version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pangoling

1.0.3Package record

Access to Large Language Model Predictions

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruno NicenboimCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides access to word predictability estimates using large language models (LLMs) based on 'transformer' architectures via integration with the 'Hugging Face' ecosystem https://huggingface.co/. The package interfaces with pre-trained neural networks and supports both causal/auto-regressive LLMs (e.g., 'GPT-2') and masked/bidirectional LLMs (e.g., 'BERT') to compute the probability of words, phrases, or tokens given their linguistic context. For details on GPT-2 and causal models, see Radford et al. (2019) https://storage.prod.researchhub.com/uploads/papers/2020/06/01/language-models.pdf, for details on BERT and masked models, see Devlin et al. (2019) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1810.04805. By enabling a straightforward estimation of word predictability, the package facilitates research in psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing (NLP).

Changes in 1.0.3

Internal changes to comply with CRAN requirements.
HF_HOME is used now to store the models rather than TRANSFORMERS_CACHE

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pangoling", 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("ropensci/pangoling")

Development version from ropensci/pangoling. 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-pangoling

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-pangoling

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-pangoling

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

2WARNING11OK

Check messages

WARNINGfor code/documentation mismatchesr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

warning: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from search path at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Can't use Python at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Python executable does not support `-I` flag. Please use Python 3.6 or newer.
warning: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from search path at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Can't use Python at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Python executable does not support `-I` flag. Please use Python 3.6 or newer.
warning: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from search path at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Can't use Python at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Python executable does not support `-I` flag. Please use Python 3.6 or newer.

WARNINGfor missing documentation entriesr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

warning: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from search path at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Can't use Python at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Python executable does not support `-I` flag. Please use Python 3.6 or newer.
All user-level objects in a package should have documentation entries.
See chapter ‘Writing R documentation files’ in the ‘Writing R
Extensions’ manual.

NOTEwhether startup messages can be suppressedr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

warning: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from search path at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Can't use Python at `/usr/sbin/pypy`
  cause: Python executable does not support `-I` flag. Please use Python 3.6 or newer.

It looks like this package (or a package it requires) has a startup
message which cannot be suppressed: see ?packageStartupMessage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING11 OK, 2 WARNINGNow
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-09-10
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-04-09
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 84%16 run in a plain check (12 of them under a condition) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,722 · ~17/day · ~523/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35530 days

1K90 days

6.3K1 year

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Also on72 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/pangoling ↗Organization: ropensci

13Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

269Commits

1Commit identities

nlppsycholinguisticsrr-packagerstatstransformers

269 commits · Last activity 2026-01-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 18
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 122026-09-22 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/pangoling on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-03-10

pkgdown site last built 2025-03-10, before release 1.0.3 (2025-04-07)

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pangoling adds 24 packages (16 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, reticulate 1.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

cachem data.table memoise reticulate rstudioapistatstidyselect tidytableutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

brms knitrparallelrmarkdown spelling testthat (>= 3.0.0)tictoc covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Bruno Nicenboim

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.3 (2025)

Contributor

Contributor

Reviewer

Reviewer

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.3Latest
record
2025-04-07 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 19 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pangoling")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 pangoling version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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