R Observatory: Metrics for spelling version 2.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spelling

2.3.2Package record

Tools for Spell Checking in R

4packages dependsuggested by 1,302

1.3Mdownloads / year

5.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Spell checking common document formats including latex, markdown, manual pages, and description files. Includes utilities to automate checking of documentation and vignettes as a unit test during 'R CMD check'. Both British and American English are supported out of the box and other languages can be added. In addition, packages may define a 'wordlist' to allow custom terminology without having to abuse punctuation.

Changes in 2.3.2

Fix diff NOTE with spelling::spell_check_test() on R-devel

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spelling", 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("ropensci/spelling")

Development version from ropensci/spelling. 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-spelling

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-spelling

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-spelling

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: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #442 · ~3.4K/day · ~104.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58.9K30 days

184.9K90 days

1.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6K r2u3 autocran8.5K conda_forge109 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/spelling ↗Organization: ropensci

108Stars

25Forks

29Open issues

5Open PRs

5Releases

148Commits

11Commit identities

spell-checkspell-checkerrrstatsspellingspellcheckspellcheckerr-package

148 commits · Last activity 2025-10-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 77%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 1072026-07-07 · 108

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/spelling on 2026-10-21.

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 (inherited from ropensci)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spelling adds 12 packages (9 with compiled code, 7.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: hunspell 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

commonmark xml2 hunspell knitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

pdftools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

3indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1,302

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Suggests, most downloaded first

and 1,258 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Jeroen Ooms

Maintainer since 1.0 (2017), Author

Jim Hester

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-28
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 12 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spelling")

Format

Ooms, J., & Hester, J. (2025). spelling: Tools for Spell Checking in R (Version 2.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spelling

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spelling version 2.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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