R Observatory: Metrics for readtext version 0.92.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

readtext

0.92.1

Import and Handling for Plain and Formatted Text Files

16packages depend

73.6Kdownloads / year

84.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kenneth BenoitFirst published 2017-05-2212 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 17.45

84.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

14

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
OK2026-07-15
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 544 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 14%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

73.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,233 · ~202/day · ~6.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.7K30 days

9.3K90 days

73.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on285 r2u1.6K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ quanteda/readtext

121Stars

26Forks

31Open issues

2Open PRs

8Releases

516Commits

12Contributors

quantedartextencoding

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

Stars over time

2025-01-29 · 1202026-07-07 · 121

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quanteda/readtext on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

16direct

0indirect

FSK2R PacketLLM daiR ragR tall textAnnotatoR warabandi AIscreenR acR aifeducation cld2 gendertext idiolect keyATM portfolioBacktest sentixr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Kenneth Benoit

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Kenneth Benoit

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Adam Obeng

Author

Contributors (4)

Akitaka Matsuo

Contributor · added in 0.70

Stefan Müller

Contributor

Paul Nulty

Contributor

Kohei Watanabe

Contributor · added in 0.70

Copyright holders (1)

Kenneth Benoit

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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

Show 6 earlier events

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.71
2018-05-11 · diff ↗
0.70
2018-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.50
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for readtext version 0.92.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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