R Observatory: Metrics for sentimentr version 2.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sentimentr

2.9.0

Calculate Text Polarity Sentiment

4packages depend

56.7Kdownloads / year

19.2%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler RinkerFirst published 2016-08-1910 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Calculate text polarity sentiment at the sentence level and optionally aggregate by rows or grouping variable(s).

Install

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

install.packages("sentimentr", 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("trinker/sentimentr")

Development version from trinker/sentimentr. 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-sentimentr

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-sentimentr

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-sentimentr

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

19.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 4,678 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 63%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

56.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,171 · ~155/day · ~4.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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92730 days

3.7K90 days

56.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ trinker/sentimentr

438Stars

86Forks

12Open issues

3Open PRs

6Releases

390Commits

6Contributors

rsentiment-analysispolaritysentimentvalence-shifteramplifier

390 commits · Last activity 2023-08-06 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 4312026-08-17 · 438

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/trinker/sentimentr on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (12)

data.table ggplot2graphicsgridlexiconmethodsstatsstringi syuzhet textclean textshapeutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

WeatherSentiment conversim warmthcompetence sumup

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-19
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 2.5 MB / 18 files
Download size: 3.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sentimentr")

Format

Rinker, T. (2021). sentimentr: Calculate Text Polarity Sentiment (Version 2.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sentimentr

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 sentimentr version 2.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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