R Observatory: Metrics for textclean version 0.9.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textclean

0.9.7Package record

Text Cleaning Tools

8packages dependsuggested by 2

92.5Kdownloads / year

4.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler RinkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Tools to clean and process text. Tools are geared at checking for substrings that are not optimal for analysis and replacing or removing them (normalizing) with more analysis friendly substrings (see Sproat, Black, Chen, Kumar, Ostendorf, & Richards (2001) doi:10.1006/csla.2001.0169) or extracting them into new variables. For example, emoticons are often used in text but not always easily handled by analysis algorithms. The replace_emoticon() function replaces emoticons with word equivalents.

Install

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

install.packages("textclean", 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("trinker/textclean")

Development version from trinker/textclean. 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-textclean

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-textclean

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-textclean

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-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 OK2026-03-12

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.7

READMEYes · 7,697 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 0.9.7Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 48 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%35 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

92.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,572 · ~254/day · ~7.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.7K30 days

14.7K90 days

92.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on709 r2u7 autocran2.3K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

trinker/textclean ↗Account: trinker

259Stars

30Forks

10Open issues

4Open PRs

3Releases

237Commits

8Commit identities

rtext-cleaningdata-mungingtext-analysisemoticonsregex

237 commits · Last activity 2026-03-05 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.9.8, ahead of CRAN 0.9.7 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 104

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 2502026-08-08 · 259

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/trinker/textclean on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing textclean adds 31 packages (16 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, syuzhet 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (9)

data.table english glue lexicon (>= 1.0.0)mgsub qdapRegex stringi textshape(>= 1.0.1)utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

hunspell testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

10indirect

Imports 8

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

textstem sentimentr upstartr SemanticDistance easieRnmt NUSS spell.replacer text2emotion

Suggests, most downloaded first

misc LilRhino

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Tyler Rinker

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2017)

Surin Space

Contributor · added in 0.9.7

ctwheels StackOverflow

Contributor · added in 0.6.3

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.7Latest
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2026-03-05 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
filter_NA, filter_element, filter_empty_row, filter_row

added 8 exports
%LIKE%, %SLIKE%, %like%, %slike%, as_ordinal, fix_mdyyyy, replace_misspelling, replace_non_ascii2
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.9.3
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2018-07-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
collapse

added 1 export
glue_collapse
0.9.2
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2018-06-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
available_checks, is_it, replace_email, replace_from, replace_hash, replace_tag, replace_to, replace_url, which_are
0.7.3
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2018-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.7.2
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2018-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
collapse, drop_element_fixed, drop_element_regex, glue, keep_element_fixed, keep_element_regex, match_tokens, mgsub_regex_safe, replace_date, replace_money, replace_time
0.6.3
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2018-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
fgsub, replace_internet_slang, replace_kern, replace_word_elongation
0.5.1
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2017-12-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 13 exports
drop_NA, drop_element, drop_empty_row, drop_row, keep_element, keep_row, make_plural, mgsub_fixed, mgsub_regex, replace_curly_quote, replace_emoji, replace_emoji_identifier, replace_names

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.1
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2017-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
replace_tokens
0.3.0
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2017-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
add_missing_endmark, replace_emoticon, replace_grade, replace_html, replace_rating
0.2.0
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2017-01-10
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-10
Total releases: 10 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 0.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("textclean")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textclean version 0.9.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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