R Observatory: Metrics for textreuse version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

textreuse

1.0.2Package record

Detect Text Reuse and Document Similarity

0packages dependsuggested by 1

10.6Kdownloads / year

89.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yaoxiang LiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for measuring similarity among documents and detecting passages which have been reused. Implements shingled n-gram, skip n-gram, and other tokenizers; similarity/dissimilarity functions; pairwise comparisons; minhash and locality sensitive hashing algorithms; and a version of the Smith-Waterman local alignment algorithm suitable for natural language.

Changes in 1.0.2

Updated locality-sensitive hashing helpers for current dplyr and tidyselect, eliminating deprecated-selection and expected many-to-many join warnings.
Replaced inactive Travis CI and AppVeyor configurations with GitHub Actions checks and coverage reporting.
Updated external documentation links to their current secure locations.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("textreuse", 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("ropensci/textreuse")

Development version from ropensci/textreuse. 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-textreuse

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-textreuse

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-textreuse

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: 4.9 min · r-release-macos-arm64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 1,036 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 72%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 23%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,860 · ~29/day · ~885/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53630 days

1.7K90 days

10.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on459 r2u5 autocran159 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/textreuse ↗Organization: ropensci

200Stars

34Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

346Commits

10Commit identities

rrstatsr-packagepeer-reviewed

346 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · -0.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-12 · 1982026-09-25 · 200

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/textreuse 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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing textreuse adds 26 packages (14 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.1

Imports (10)

assertthat digest dplyr NLPMatrixRcpp RcppProgress stringr tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (3)

BH Rcpp RcppProgress

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

textrank

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Yaoxiang Li

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2026) · added in 1.0.1

Lincoln Mullen

Author

Previously maintained by Lincoln Mullen (0.1.0 to 0.1.5).

Releases (8)

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1.0.2Latest
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2026-07-25 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2026-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
as_sparse_matrix, count_matches, lsh_add, matching_tokens, token_index, token_index_candidates
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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
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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.5
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2020-05-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.4
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2016-11-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.3
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2016-03-28 · diff ↗

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0.1.2
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2015-11-06 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2015-11-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2015-10-31
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-31
Total releases: 8 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.1
Download size: 1.2 MB

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Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("textreuse")

Format

Li, Y., & Mullen, L. (2026). textreuse: Detect Text Reuse and Document Similarity (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.textreuse

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textreuse version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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