R Observatory: Metrics for sentimentr version 2.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sentimentr

2.9.0Package record

Calculate Text Polarity Sentiment

3packages dependsuggested by 1

38.1Kdownloads / year

19.2%test coverage

7/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler RinkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR5NOTE7OK

Check messages

ERRORtestsr-release-windows-x86_64

Running 'testthat.R' [10s]
Running the tests in 'tests/testthat.R' failed.
Complete output:
  > library("testthat")
  > library("sentimentr")
  > 
  > test_check("sentimentr")
  [ FAIL 0 | WARN 2 | SKIP 0 | PASS 33 ]
  
  [ FAIL 0 | WARN 2 | SKIP 0 | PASS 33 ]
  > 
  > proc.time()
     user  system elapsed 
     8.93    0.43    9.37

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  sentimentr/R/validate_sentiment.R (.Dim: 2, .Dimnames: 2, .Names: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Tyler Rinker <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.9.0

READMEYes · 4,678 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 50 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%12 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 90%
Help pages citing references: 40%

How these are measured

Downloads

38.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,150 · ~104/day · ~3.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

3.9K90 days

38.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on175 r2u1.8K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

trinker/sentimentr ↗Account: trinker

439Stars

86Forks

12Open issues

3Open PRs

6Releases

390Commits

6Commit identities

rsentiment-analysispolaritysentimentvalence-shifteramplifier

390 commits · Last activity 2021-10-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.9.1, ahead of CRAN 2.9.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 26
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 24

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 4312026-09-22 · 439

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/trinker/sentimentr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sentimentr adds 41 packages (19 with compiled code, 43 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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

3direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

warmthcompetence WeatherSentiment conversim

Suggests, most downloaded first

sumup

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.3 (2016)

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.9.0Latest
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2021-10-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.7.1
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2019-03-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
emotion, emotion_by, extract_emotion_terms
2.6.1
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2018-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
available_data, extract_profanity_terms, profanity, profanity_by, sentimentr_data
2.4.2
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2018-09-25 · diff ↗
2.3.2
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2018-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.2.3
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2018-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
combine_data, replace_emoji, replace_emoji_identifier, replace_internet_slang, replace_word_elongation
2.0.1
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2017-11-27 · diff ↗

Show 5 earlier eventsHide 5 earlier events

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.0
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2017-03-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
average_downweighted_zero, average_mean, average_weighted_mixed_sentiment, general_rescale, sentiment_attributes, update_polarity_table, update_valence_shifter_table, validate_sentiment
0.4.0
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2016-12-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extract_sentiment_terms
0.2.3
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2016-08-19
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-19
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-2 in 0.4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 2.5 MB / 18 files
Download size: 3.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("sentimentr")

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sentimentr version 2.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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