R Observatory: Metrics for spelling version 2.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spelling

2.3.2

Tools for Spell Checking in R

1,217packages depend

1.7Mdownloads / year

5.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2017-08-2810 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 51 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

5.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #370 · ~4.5K/day · ~138.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

68.2K30 days

259.7K90 days

1.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/spelling

108Stars

26Forks

29Open issues

5Open PRs

5Releases

148Commits

11Contributors

spell-checkspell-checkerrrstatsspellingspellcheckspellcheckerr-package

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

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 1072026-07-07 · 108

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/spelling on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

commonmark xml2 hunspell knitr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

pdftools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Jeroen Ooms

Maintainer, Author

Jim Hester

Author

Package Timeline

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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 spelling version 2.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-15, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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