R Observatory: Metrics for sylcount version 0.2-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sylcount

0.2-6Package record

Syllable Counting and Readability Measurements

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

83.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Drew SchmidtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An English language syllable counter, plus readability score measure-er. For readability, we support 'Flesch' Reading Ease and 'Flesch-Kincaid' Grade Level ('Kincaid' 'et al'. 1975) https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=istlibrary, Automated Readability Index ('Senter' and Smith 1967) https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0667273, Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (McLaughlin 1969), and 'Coleman-Liau' (Coleman and 'Liau' 1975) doi:10.1037/h0076540. The package has been carefully optimized and should be very efficient, both in terms of run time performance and memory consumption. The main methods are 'vectorized' by document, and scores for multiple documents are computed in parallel via 'OpenMP'.

Install

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

install.packages("sylcount", 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("wrathematics/sylcount")

Development version from wrathematics/sylcount. 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-sylcount

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-sylcount

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-sylcount

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2-6

READMEYes · 231 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,761 · ~8/day · ~255/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31830 days

72990 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on371 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

wrathematics/sylcount ↗Account: wrathematics

6Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

117Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as BSD-2-Clause · 117 commits · Last activity 2023-12-10

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2021-01-27 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/wrathematics/sylcount on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Drew Schmidt

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2017)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.2-6Latest
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2023-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2-5
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2022-11-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2-4
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2022-03-11 · diff ↗
0.2-3
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2021-09-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2-2
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2020-02-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-03-12
0.2-1
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2019-03-12 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-06
check problems were not corrected despite reminder and suggested patch Misuse of OpenMP gives installation failure on Solaris

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0.2-0
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2019-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
sylcount.nthreads
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1-0
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2017-04-07
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-07
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: BSD 2-clause License + file LICENSE
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 159 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sylcount")

Format

Schmidt, D. (2023). sylcount: Syllable Counting and Readability Measurements (Version 0.2-6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sylcount

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

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 sylcount version 0.2-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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