R Observatory: Metrics for syn version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

syn

0.1.0Package record

Creates Synonyms From Target Words

2packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas TierneyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Generates synonyms from a given word drawing from a synonym list from the 'moby' project http://moby-thesaurus.org/.

Changes in 0.1.0

Implemented n_words to count the number of words in a string. This can be useful for subsetting your synonyms.
ensured that words are converted to lowercase when looked up (#27)
Easter Egg: Package name was created with syn::syn("synonym")[2]

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("syn", 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("ropenscilabs/syn")

Development version from ropenscilabs/syn. 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-syn

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-syn

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-syn

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: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 349 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,683 · ~9/day · ~265/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27630 days

78590 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

njtierney/syn ↗Account: njtierney

Moved from ropenscilabs/syn.

54Stars

4Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

87Commits

3Commit identities

rstatssynonymsthesaurusantonymstext-processingozunconf18unconfr

87 commits · Last activity 2024-01-12 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-13 · 532026-07-07 · 54

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/ropenscilabs/syn on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-30

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

glue covr testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Depends 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

GISINTEGRATION PreProcessRecordLinkage

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Nicholas Tierney

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Author

Author

Author

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2019-12-20 · current release
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-20
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 3.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("syn")

Format

Tierney, N., Cheng, M., Lumley, T., Stringer, A., & de Jong, L. (2019). syn: Creates Synonyms From Target Words (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.syn

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 syn version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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