R Observatory: Metrics for readtext version 0.92.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

readtext

0.92.1Package record

Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files

7packages dependsuggested by 9

53.9Kdownloads / year

84.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kenneth BenoitCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions for importing and handling text files and formatted text files with additional meta-data, such including '.csv', '.tab', '.json', '.xml', '.html', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.rtf', '.xls', '.xlsx', and others.

Install

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

install.packages("readtext", 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("quanteda/readtext")

Development version from quanteda/readtext. 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-readtext

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-readtext

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-10
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.92.1

READMEYes · 544 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 0.92.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 14%1 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Reading text files with readtext

How these are measured

Downloads

53.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,121 · ~148/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

8.4K90 days

53.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on327 r2u1.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

quanteda/readtext ↗Organization: quanteda

121Stars

26Forks

31Open issues

2Open PRs

8Releases

516Commits

12Commit identities

quantedartextencoding

516 commits · Last activity 2025-07-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 33
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-01-29 · 1202026-07-07 · 121

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quanteda/readtext on 2026-10-18.

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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-27

pkgdown site last built 2025-07-27

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing readtext adds 46 packages (31 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, readxl 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (14)

antiword data.table digest httr jsonlite pillar pdftools readODS readxl streamR stringi striprtf xml2utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr pkgload rmarkdown quanteda testthat covr spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

0indirect

Imports 7

Suggested by 9

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tall PacketLLM FSK2R daiR textAnnotatoR warabandi ragR

Suggests, most downloaded first

cld2 aifeducation portfolioBacktest keyATM AIscreenR acR idiolect sentixr gendertext

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Kenneth Benoit

Adam Obeng

Author

Akitaka Matsuo

Contributor · added in 0.70

Stefan Müller

Contributor

Paul Nulty

Contributor

Kohei Watanabe

Contributor · added in 0.70

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.92.1Latest
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2025-07-27 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.91
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2024-02-23 · diff ↗
0.90
record
2023-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
docnames, docvars
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.82
record
2023-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
docnames, docvars, texts
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.81
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2021-07-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.80
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2020-09-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.76
record
2020-03-04 · diff ↗
0.75
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2019-06-26 · diff ↗
0.74
record
2019-05-08 · diff ↗

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R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.71
record
2018-05-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
readtext_options
0.70
record
2018-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.50
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2017-05-22
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-22
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 0.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 3.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("readtext")

Format

Benoit, K., Matsuo, A., Müller, S., Nulty, P., Obeng, A., & Watanabe, K. (2025). readtext: Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files (Version 0.92.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.readtext

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for readtext version 0.92.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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