poldis

0.1.2

Analyse Political Texts

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

30.7%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Henrique SpositoFirst published 2024-07-212 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Wrangle and annotate different types of political texts. It also introduces Urgency Analysis, a new method for the analysis of urgency in political texts.

Install

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

install.packages("poldis", 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("henriquesposito/poldis")

Development version from henriquesposito/poldis. 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-poldis

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-poldis

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-poldis

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: 3.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

30.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 11,984 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,730 · ~6/day · ~175/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ henriquesposito/poldis

4Stars

0Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

521Commits

6Contributors

521 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-08-03 · 32026-07-07 · 4

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/henriquesposito/poldis on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

dplyr stringr purrr stringi quanteda spacyr textstem tidyr stringdist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

rmarkdown testthat tesseract quanteda.textstats keyATM messydates pdftools fmsb ggplot2 tm cli

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Henrique Sposito

Maintainer, Author, Contributor

Authors (1)

Henrique Sposito

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Contributors (3)

Henrique Sposito

Maintainer, Author, Contributor

James Hollway

Contributor

Jael Tan

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Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.2Latest
2024-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2024-07-21
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-21
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 1 file
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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