R Observatory: Metrics for VOSONDash version 0.5.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VOSONDash

0.5.7Package record

User Interface for Collecting and Analysing Social Networks

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bryan GertzelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A 'Shiny' application for the interactive visualisation and analysis of networks that also provides a web interface for collecting social media data using 'vosonSML'.

Changes in 0.5.7

Minor Changes:

Added a legend to network plots with vertex categorical attributes.
Removed automatic iconv conversion of text for text analysis. So unicode should display properly for plots in most cases.
Made Arial Unicode MS the default plot font for macOS systems that have it installed. This is to avoid problems with unicode characters. It can be disabled in the Network Graphs section.
Added an option for HTML decoding text.
Made removal of URL's, numbers and punctuation optional for text analysis.
Added text analysis word length control.
Added some additional wordcloud controls such as re-seed.
Cleaned up text corpus, word frequency and text analysis plot functions.
Improved speed of sentiment analysis plots. They will also now only update when the Sentiment Analysis tab is open or clicked on.
Added convenience functions dtbGraph() and eawGraph(). These load package included "Divided They Blog" and "Enviro Activist Websites 2006" igraph graphs.
Cleaned up package dependencies.

Show all changes in 0.5.7Hide the rest of the changes in 0.5.7

CRAN version update.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("VOSONDash", 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("vosonlab/VOSONDash")

Development version from vosonlab/VOSONDash. 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-vosondash

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-VOSONDash

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-VOSONDash

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: ‘Bryan Gertzel <bryan.gertzel@anu.edu.au>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Bryan",
                      family = "Gertzel",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "bryan.gertzel@anu.edu.au"),
               person(given = "Robert",
                      family = "Ackland",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.7

READMEYes · 463 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.7Citation fileNo

Help pages: 43 (22 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,459 · ~8/day · ~257/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30230 days

77990 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on70 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

vosonlab/vosondash ↗Organization: vosonlab

56Stars

12Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

67Commits

2Commit identities

vosonrr-shinysocial-network-analysisrstudior-packagerstatsshiny

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 67 commits · Last activity 2023-02-03 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.1, ahead of CRAN 0.5.7 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 94
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-04 · 552026-07-07 · 56

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vosonlab/vosondash on 2026-10-11.

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 (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-02-03

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VOSONDash adds 68 packages (42 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (17)

data.tablegraphicshttpuv httr igraphlatticemagrittr RColorBrewer shiny SnowballC systemfonts syuzhet textutils tmutilsvosonSML (>= 0.29.0)wordcloud

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

dplyr DT htmlwidgets rtweet shinydashboard shinyjs visNetwork

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

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

Bryan Gertzel

Robert Ackland

Maintainer since 0.4.4 (2019)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.5.7Latest
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2020-07-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
loadDemoGraph

added 7 exports
corpusFromGraph, dtbGraph, eawGraph, getSystemFontFamilies, loadPackageGraph, wordFreqFromCorpus, wordSentData
0.5.4
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2020-05-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.1
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2019-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
isVosonSML0290
0.4.4
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2019-08-09
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-09
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 167 KB

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citation("VOSONDash")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VOSONDash version 0.5.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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