R Observatory: Metrics for word2vec version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

word2vec

0.4.1Package record

Distributed Representations of Words

6packages dependsuggested by 5

19.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan WijffelsCRAN 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.

Changes in 0.4.1

documentation changes in word2vec_similarity regarding the use of braces
fix note about arXiv DOI in DESCRIPTION

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 382 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 27%

How these are measured

Downloads

19.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,298 · ~52/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

3.5K90 days

19.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on857 r2u5 autocran2.5K conda_forge69 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bnosac/word2vec ↗Organization: bnosac

73Stars

6Forks

9Open issues

4Open PRs

9Releases

90Commits

2Commit identities

word2vecr-packageembeddingsnatural-language-processing

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 84
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 42026-09-03 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bnosac/word2vec on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and macOS, and on R-devel

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing word2vec adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppProgress 12 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

Rcppstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppProgress

Suggests (1)

udpipe

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tall rwig node2vec LLMing wordsalad conversim

Suggests, most downloaded first

wordvector doc2vec sentencepiece PsychWordVec topicmodels.etm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Jan Wijffels

R wrapper

Kohei Watanabe

Author · added in 0.4.0

Max Fomichev

Contributor, Copyright holder

Code in src/word2vec

BNOSAC

Copyright holder

R wrapper

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-11-27 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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2020-11-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
txt_clean_word2vec
0.3.2
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2020-10-10 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2020-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
doc2vec
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2020-06-12 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2020-06-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
read.wordvectors, word2vec_similarity
0.1.0
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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

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("word2vec")

Format

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for word2vec version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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