R Observatory: Metrics for stopwords version 2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stopwords

2.3Package record

Multilingual Stopword Lists

14packages dependsuggested by 11

214.7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kenneth BenoitCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides multiple sources of stopwords, for use in text analysis and natural language processing.

Changes in 2.3

Move the **lintr** checks from testthat.R to GitHub actions.
A longer list of Russian stopwords are added to the "marimo" source (#40).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("stopwords", 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("quanteda/stopwords")

Development version from quanteda/stopwords. 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-stopwords

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-stopwords

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-stopwords

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: 57 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

READMEYes · 1,254 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 14 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 25%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

214.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #999 · ~588/day · ~17.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15K30 days

40.1K90 days

214.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.9K r2u192 autocran6.4K conda_forge213 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

quanteda/stopwords ↗Organization: quanteda

120Stars

9Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

145Commits

4Commit identities

rtext-analysis

145 commits · Last activity 2022-01-07 · +0.8% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.4, ahead of CRAN 2.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-16 · 1172026-10-13 · 120

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/quanteda/stopwords on 2026-10-11.

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 (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-01-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

Git structural (1)

Submodules

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing stopwords adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 159 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ISOcodes 159 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

ISOcodes

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr quanteda spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

14direct

54indirect

Imports 14

Suggested by 11

Show all 25 packagesHide all 25 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

quanteda textmineR topics rwig dail LDAShiny finnsurveytext discoverableresearch LLMing quickSentiment texter VectrixDB shoppingwords MediaNews

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidytext tokenizers mlr3pipelines textrecipes fdm2id acR TextAnalysisR sentometrics telegramR sumup tbnb

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Kenneth Benoit

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2019) · added in 0.9.0

David Muhr

Author

Kohei Watanabe

Author · added in 0.9.0

Previously maintained by David Muhr (0.1.0 to 0.9.0).

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.3Latest
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2021-10-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2
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2021-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
use_stopwords
2.1
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2020-12-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0
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2020-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
use_stopwords
1.0
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2019-07-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.9.0
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2017-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
stopwords, stopwords_getlanguages, stopwords_getsources, stopwords_options
0.1.0
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2017-11-12

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-12
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 153 KB / 8 files
Download size: 174 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("stopwords")

Format

Benoit, K., Muhr, D., & Watanabe, K. (2021). stopwords: Multilingual Stopword Lists (Version 2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.stopwords

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stopwords version 2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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