R Observatory: Metrics for statlingua version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

statlingua

0.1.0Package record

Explain Statistical Output with Large Language Models

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

50.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon M. GreenwellCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Transform complex statistical output into straightforward, understandable, and context-aware natural language descriptions using Large Language Models (LLMs), making complex analyses more accessible to individuals with varying statistical expertise. It relies on the 'ellmer' package to interface with LLM providers including OpenAI https://openai.com/, Google AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/, and Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/ (API keys are required and managed via 'ellmer').

Changes in 0.1.0

Added

Initial release.

Changed

Major refactor, including new prompt layout in inst/prompts
The explain() generic gained a default fallback method (thanks to @Grandhe-Sundhar). Closes #3.
Revised vignette and README files.
Changed LICENSE to GPL (>= 2).
Removed troublesome OpenAI URL in vignette

Miscellaneous

Fixed redundant arg lists and calls to match.arg().
Updated Description field per feedback from CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("statlingua", 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("bgreenwell/statlingua")

Development version from bgreenwell/statlingua. 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-statlingua

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-statlingua

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-statlingua

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.1.0

READMEYes · 1,038 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

The statlingua Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,786 · ~6/day · ~178/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23130 days

61590 days

2.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on78 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bgreenwell/statlingo ↗Account: bgreenwell

Moved from bgreenwell/statlingua.

11Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

88Commits

4Commit identities

explainabilitylarge-language-modelsstatisticsteaching-toolsdata-sciencellmllms

88 commits · Last activity 2026-07-10 · +10% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-25 · 92026-10-09 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bgreenwell/statlingua 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

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Julesfirst seen 2025-05-25
Commits: 4 by its own account
GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-07-04
Commits: at least 11 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-05
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing statlingua adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

car ellmer ISLR2 knitr lme4 lmerTestMASSmgcvnlmeR6 rmarkdownsurvivaltibble tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Brandon M. Greenwell

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Brandon Greenwell

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2025-06-02 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-02
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 155 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("statlingua")

Format

Greenwell, B. M. (2025). statlingua: Explain Statistical Output with Large Language Models (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.statlingua

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 statlingua version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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