R Observatory: Metrics for sylcount version 0.2-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sylcount

0.2-6

Syllable Counting and Readability Measurements

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

83.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Drew SchmidtFirst published 2017-04-078 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.46

83.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-07
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 231 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 20%

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,098 · ~9/day · ~259/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9830 days

54790 days

3.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wrathematics/sylcount

6Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

117Commits

1Contributors

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

Stars over time

2021-01-27 · 62026-07-07 · 6

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/wrathematics/sylcount on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Drew Schmidt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Drew Schmidt

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

8 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 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2-6Latest
2023-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2-5
2022-11-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2-4
2022-03-11 · diff ↗
0.2-3
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
2020-02-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2-1
2019-03-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-03-12
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-06
check problems were not corrected despite reminder and suggested patch Misuse of OpenMP gives installation failure on Solaris

Show 5 earlier events

0.2-0
2019-02-20 · diff ↗
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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
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sylcount version 0.2-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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