R Observatory: Metrics for textrank version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textrank

0.3.1Package record

Summarize Text by Ranking Sentences and Finding Keywords

2packages depend

12Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan WijffelsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'textrank' algorithm is an extension of the 'Pagerank' algorithm for text. The algorithm allows to summarize text by calculating how sentences are related to one another. This is done by looking at overlapping terminology used in sentences in order to set up links between sentences. The resulting sentence network is next plugged into the 'Pagerank' algorithm which identifies the most important sentences in your text and ranks them. In a similar way 'textrank' can also be used to extract keywords. A word network is constructed by looking if words are following one another. On top of that network the 'Pagerank' algorithm is applied to extract relevant words after which relevant words which are following one another are combined to get keywords. More information can be found in the paper from Mihalcea, Rada & Tarau, Paul (2004) https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W04-3252/.

Changes in 0.3.1

Make example conditionally on availability of udpipe

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("textrank", 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("bnosac/textrank")

Development version from bnosac/textrank. 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-textrank

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-textrank

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-textrank

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 166 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Textrank for summarizing text

How these are measured

Downloads

12K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,805 · ~33/day · ~998/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

56130 days

1.4K90 days

12K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on130 r2u12 autocran125 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bnosac/textrank ↗Organization: bnosac

76Stars

9Forks

1Open issues

2Open PRs

4Releases

16Commits

1Commit identities

textranktextrank-algorithmrnlpnatural-language-processing

16 commits · Last activity 2020-10-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-19 · 772026-07-25 · 76

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bnosac/textrank on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing textrank adds 11 packages (8 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

utilsdata.table igraph digest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

textreuse knitr rmarkdown udpipe

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tall finnsurveytext

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Jan Wijffels

BNOSAC

Copyright holder

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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0.3.1Latest
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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2017-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
textrank

added 2 exports
textrank_keywords, textrank_sentences
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2017-11-22
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-22
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: MPL-2.0 OSI
Bundled data: 8.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 309 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("textrank")

Format

Wijffels, J., & BNOSAC. (2020). textrank: Summarize Text by Ranking Sentences and Finding Keywords (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.textrank

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textrank version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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