BERTopic

0.1.0

Topic Modeling with 'BERTopic'

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1.4Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Biying ZhouFirst published 2026-01-261 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the Python package 'BERTopic' https://maartengr.github.io/BERTopic/index.html for transformer-based topic modeling. Provides R wrappers to fit BERTopic models, transform new documents, update and reduce topics, extract topic- and document-level information, and generate interactive visualizations. 'Python' backends and dependencies are managed via the 'reticulate' package.

Install

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

install.packages("BERTopic", 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("Feng-Ji-Lab/BERTopic")

Development version from Feng-Ji-Lab/BERTopic. 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-bertopic

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

# 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-BERTopic

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

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Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 598 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 11%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Rank #19,154 · ~4/day · ~117/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ feng-ji-lab/bertopic

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13 commits · Last activity 2026-01-20 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (4)

reticulate rlang tibbleutils

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Matrixhtmltools testthat

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Biying Zhou

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Authors (1)

Biying Zhou

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-26
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 325 KB / 2 files
Download size: 220 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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