R Observatory: Metrics for stm version 1.3.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stm

1.3.8

Estimation of the Structural Topic Model

13packages depend

97.9Kdownloads / year

24.6%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon StewartFirst published 2014-02-2820 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Structural Topic Model (STM) allows researchers to estimate topic models with document-level covariates. The package also includes tools for model selection, visualization, and estimation of topic-covariate regressions. Methods developed in Roberts et. al. (2014) doi:10.1111/ajps.12103 and Roberts et. al. (2016) doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1141684. Vignette is Roberts et. al. (2019) doi:10.18637/jss.v091.i02.

Install

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

install.packages("stm", 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("bstewart/stm")

Development version from bstewart/stm. 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-stm

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-stm

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-stm

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 13.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

24.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-20
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ERROR2026-05-12
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ERROR2026-04-18
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ERROR2026-04-09
9 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 49%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 52%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

97.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,802 · ~268/day · ~8.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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3.9K30 days

13.2K90 days

97.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bstewart/stm

421Stars

101Forks

113Open issues

4Open PRs

2Releases

415Commits

28Contributors

415 commits · Last activity 2026-01-14 · +0.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 4192026-08-10 · 421

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bstewart/stm on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (16)

Rcpp data.table glmnetgrDevicesgraphicsldaMatrixmatrixStatsparallelquadprog quanteda slamsplinesstatsstringrutils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (15)

clue geometry huge hunspell igraph LDAvisKernSmoothNLP rsvd Rtsne SnowballC spelling testthat tm wordcloud

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

13direct

0indirect

stmgui SportMiner discursive sts tall ELAplus TextAnalysisR birddog oolong sentopics tidytext tmfast topicdoc

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Brandon Stewart

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Authors (3)

Brandon Stewart

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.1

Margaret Roberts

Author · added in 1.2.1

Dustin Tingley

Author

Contributors (1)

Kenneth Benoit

Contributor · added in 1.2.1

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Margaret E. Roberts

no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 1.1.3

Brandon M. Stewart

no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 1.1.3

Package Timeline

20 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-02-28
Total releases: 20 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 869 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Stewart, B., Benoit, K., Roberts, M., & Tingley, D. (2025). stm: Estimation of the Structural Topic Model (Version 1.3.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.stm

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stm version 1.3.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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