R Observatory: Metrics for word2vec version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

word2vec

0.4.1

Distributed Representations of Words

10packages depend

23.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan WijffelsFirst published 2020-06-049 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Learn vector representations of words by continuous bag of words and skip-gram implementations of the 'word2vec' algorithm. The techniques are detailed in the paper "Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality" by Mikolov et al. (2013), available at doi:10.48550/arXiv.1310.4546.

Install

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

install.packages("word2vec", 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/word2vec")

Development version from bnosac/word2vec. 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-word2vec

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-word2vec

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-word2vec

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 382 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

23.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,358 · ~65/day · ~2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bnosac/word2vec

73Stars

5Forks

9Open issues

4Open PRs

9Releases

90Commits

2Contributors

word2vecr-packageembeddingsnatural-language-processing

License Apache-2.0 · 90 commits · Last activity 2025-11-26

Forks over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bnosac/word2vec on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

Rcppstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppProgress

Suggests (1)

udpipe

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

conversim node2vec rwig tall wordsalad PsychWordVec doc2vec sentencepiece topicmodels.etm wordvector

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jan Wijffels

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Jan Wijffels

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Kohei Watanabe

Author · added in 0.4.0

Contributors (1)

Max Fomichev

Contributor, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (3)

Jan Wijffels

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Max Fomichev

Contributor, Copyright holder

BNOSAC

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1Latest
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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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2021-07-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.3
2020-11-26 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2020-10-10 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-09-02 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2020-06-12 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-06-11 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2020-06-04
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-04
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 204 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Wijffels, J., BNOSAC, Fomichev, M., & Watanabe, K. (2025). word2vec: Distributed Representations of Words (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.word2vec

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for word2vec version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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