fastTextR

2.1.1

An Interface to the 'fastText' Library

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6.4Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtFirst published 2017-05-125 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface to the 'fastText' library https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText. The package can be used for text classification and to learn word vectors. An example how to use 'fastTextR' can be found in the 'README' file.

Install

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

install.packages("fastTextR", 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("EmilHvitfeldt/fastTextR")

Development version from EmilHvitfeldt/fastTextR. 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-fasttextr

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-fastTextR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ emilhvitfeldt/fasttextr

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20 commits · Last activity 2026-02-09 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsgraphicsRcpp slam

LinkingTo (1)

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Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

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wordsalad PsychWordVec

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Authors (2)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.0.0

Florian Schwendinger

Author

Package Timeline

5 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.1Latest
2026-02-10 · 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
2.1.0
2023-12-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.1
2022-10-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.0
2020-09-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0
2017-05-12
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-05-12
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 683 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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