R Observatory: Metrics for textcat version 1.0-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textcat

1.0-10Package record

N-Gram Based Text Categorization

0packages dependsuggested by 1

17.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kurt HornikCRAN page ↗

Text categorization based on n-grams.

Install

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

install.packages("textcat", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-textcat

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-textcat

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-textcat

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 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0-10

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 33% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

17.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,143 · ~49/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64330 days

1.6K90 days

17.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on106 r2u10 autocran134 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing textcat adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 159 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: tau 105 KB, slam 54 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (2)

tau slam

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

sentopics

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Kurt Hornik

Author, Maintainer since 0.0-1 (2009)

Christian Buchta

Author

Ingo Feinerer

Author

Johannes Rauch

Author

Releases (26)

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-10-21
Total releases: 26 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 203 KB / 3 files
Download size: 224 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("textcat")

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textcat version 1.0-10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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