R Observatory: Metrics for phonics version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

phonics

1.4.0

Phonetic Spelling Algorithms

3packages depend

16.1Kdownloads / year

99.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by James HowardFirst published 2015-12-2716 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a collection of phonetic algorithms including Soundex, Metaphone, NYSIIS, Caverphone, and others. The package is documented in doi:10.18637/jss.v095.i08.

Install

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

install.packages("phonics", 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("k3jph/phonics-in-r")

Development version from k3jph/phonics-in-r. 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-phonics

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-phonics

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-phonics

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.77

99.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 317 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

16.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,118 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

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16.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ k3jph/phonics-in-r

35Stars

8Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

20Releases

394Commits

4Contributors

phonetic-spelling-algorithmssoundexphonicsnysiismetaphonetext-processinglinguisticsrecord-linkage

394 commits · Last activity 2026-08-11 · +2.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-03 · 312026-08-07 · 35

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffJOSS paper

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp data.table

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Rcpp

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

James Howard

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.2

Authors (1)

James Howard

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.3.2

Contributors (3)

Kyle Haynes

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Amanda Hood

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Os Keyes

Contributor · added in 1.3.2

Listed in earlier versions (4)

"James P. Howard

no longer listed · 0.5.4 to 0.6.2

II"

no longer listed · 0.5.4 to 0.6.2

James P. Howard, II

no longer listed · 0.6.3 to 1.3.0

Oliver Keyes

no longer listed · 0.7.4 to 1.3.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-27
Total releases: 16 / 11 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 46 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for phonics version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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