R Observatory: Metrics for zipfR version 0.6-70

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

zipfR

0.6-70Package record

Statistical Models for Word Frequency Distributions

10packages dependsuggested by 3

34.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan EvertCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Statistical models and utilities for the analysis of word frequency distributions. The utilities include functions for loading, manipulating and visualizing word frequency data and vocabulary growth curves. The package also implements several statistical models for the distribution of word frequencies in a population. (The name of this package derives from the most famous word frequency distribution, Zipf's law.)

Changes in 0.6-70

parallelization of lnre.bootstrap(), using forked processed on Unix-like platforms or with a properly initialized snow cluster (based on the 'parallel' package)
bootstrapped confidence intervals in lnre() are speeded up substantially
additional productivity measures and some other improvements to productivity.measures()
lnre.productivity.measures() computes approximate expectations for samples from LNRE population or estimates sampling distribution by parametric bootstrapping
plot.tfl() now also plots relative frequencies (pmw) for comparison across different sample sizes, as well as population distributions described by LNRE models
plot method (plot.lnre) for LNRE models, showing either the log-transformed type density function or the distribution function for a quick visualisation
all plot methods accept list of objects in first argument to avoid do.call() trickery, but need to be called explicitly rather than via method dispatch in this case

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lnre() now allows a user-defined cost function in parameter estimation (e.g to fit against Zipf ranking = top part of TFL, or to set parameters based on implicit constraints)
bug fix: tfl2spc() no longer includes types with f = 0 in frequency spectrum, and spc() now complains in such cases
new default colour scheme and line styles

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("zipfR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-zipfr

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-zipfR

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-zipfR

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Stefan Evert <stefan.evert@fau.de>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Stefan",
                      family = "Evert",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "stefan.evert@fau.de"),
               person(given = "Marco",
                      family = "Baroni",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "marco.baroni@unitn.it"))
as necessary.

Found the following URLs which should use \doi (with the DOI name only):
  File ‘productivity_measures.Rd’:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-2556
  File ‘zipfR_package.Rd’:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-2556

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.6-70

READMEYes · 10 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6-70Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 57includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 87%41 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 30%

Vignettes (1)

zipfR Tutorial PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

34.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,379 · ~94/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.4K30 days

6.9K90 days

34.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing zipfR adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (6)

methodsutilsstatsgraphicsgrDevicesparallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

Imports 10

Suggested by 3

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MSCquartets pvaluefunctions MetaLandSim RelDists FRCI PLreg PivotalP GeodRegr qGaussian rmstBayespara

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Stefan Evert

Marco Baroni

Maintainer since 0.6-0 (2006)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2020-10-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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postdlnre, postldlnre, postplnre, postqlnre, bootstrap.confint, productivity.measures
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2012-04-03 · diff ↗ ·
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zipfR.legend, plot.spc, plot.vgc

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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2006-08-23
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2006-08-23
Total releases: 6 / 20 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 1,002 KB / 34 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for zipfR version 0.6-70 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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