R Observatory: Metrics for readability version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2018-04-22. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requested by the maintainer <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>

Details below reflect version 0.1.1, its last release before removal.

readability

0.1.1Package record

Calculate Readability Scores

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler RinkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Calculate readability scores by grouping variables. Readability is an approximation of the ease with which a reader parses and comprehends a written text. These scores use text attributes such as syllable counts, number of words, and number of characters to calculate an approximate grade level reading ease for the text. The readability scores that are calculated include: Flesch Kincaid, Gunning Fog Index, Coleman Liau, SMOG, and Automated Readability Index.

Changes in 0.1.1

This package is a collection of readability tools that utilize the **syllable** package for fast calculation of readability scores by grouping variables.

From NEWS in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/readability/readability_0.1.1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "readability_0.1.1.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 (0.1.1) 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("trinker/readability")

Development version from trinker/readability. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

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Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 266 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.1

Imports (5)

data.table ggplot2statssyllable tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2017)

Releases (1)

R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-04-22
requested by the maintainer <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
record
2017-01-22
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-22
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.1

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("readability")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for readability version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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