dhmeasures

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Digital History Measures

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Overview

About

Maintained by Steph BuongiornoFirst published 2026-03-231 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides statistical functions to aid in the analysis of contemporary and historical corpora. These transparent functions may be useful to anyone, and were designed with the social sciences and humanities in mind. JSD (Jensen-Shannon Divergence) is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions. The JSD and Original JSD functions expand on existing functions, by calculating the JSD for distributions of words in text groups for all pairwise groups provided (Drost (2018) doi:10.21105/joss.00765). The Log Likelihood function is inspired by the work of digital historian Jo Guldi (Guldi (2022) https://github.com/joguldi/digital-history). Also includes helper functions that can count word frequency in each text grouping, and remove stop words.

Install

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

install.packages("dhmeasures", 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("stephbuon/dhmeasures")

Development version from stephbuon/dhmeasures. 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-dhmeasures

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-dhmeasures

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-dhmeasures

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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Check history

OK2026-04-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-24
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 25%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stephbuon/dhmeasures

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Last activity 2026-04-20

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R >= 3.5.0

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Rcpp dplyr tidytext

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Steph Buongiorno

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Steph Buongiorno

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Ryan Schaefer

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-23 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.0 MB / 2 files
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