R Observatory: Metrics for spell.replacer version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spell.replacer

1.0.1Package record

Probabilistic Spelling Correction in a Character Vector

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David BrownCRAN page ↗

Automatically replaces "misspelled" words in a character vector based on their string distance from a list of words sorted by their frequency in a corpus. The default word list provided in the package comes from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Uses the Jaro-Winkler distance metric for string similarity as implemented in van der Loo (2014) doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-011. The word frequency data is derived from Davies (2008-) "The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)" https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/.

Install

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

install.packages("spell.replacer", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-spell.replacer

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-spell.replacer

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-spell.replacer

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with spell.replacer HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,789 · ~5/day · ~154/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17730 days

54190 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on53 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spell.replacer adds 36 packages (20 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, hunspell 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

hunspell stringr stringdist textclean

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

David Brown

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2025)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
record
2025-09-03 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-03
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 407 KB / 1 file
Download size: 423 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spell.replacer")

Format

Brown, D. (2025). spell.replacer: Probabilistic Spelling Correction in a Character Vector (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spell.replacer

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

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 spell.replacer version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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