textAnnotatoR

1.0.1

Interactive Text Annotation Tool with 'shiny' GUI

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

5.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Chao LiuFirst published 2024-11-122 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A lightweight and focused text annotation tool built with 'shiny'. Provides an interactive graphical user interface for coding text documents, managing code hierarchies, creating memos, and analyzing coding patterns. Features include code co-occurrence analysis, visualization of coding patterns, comparison of multiple coding sets, and export capabilities. Supports collaborative qualitative research through standardized annotation formats and analysis tools.

Install

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

install.packages("textAnnotatoR", 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("chaoliu-cl/textAnnotatoR")

Development version from chaoliu-cl/textAnnotatoR. 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-textannotator

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

5.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,503 · ~7/day · ~216/mo

Releases R versions

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18130 days

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2.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ chaoliu-cl/textannotator

9Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

61Commits

2Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 61 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-01 · 12026-07-07 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/chaoliu-cl/textannotator on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

shiny shinydashboard shinyjs shinyFiles data.tree jsonlite DT readtext magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr mockery dplyr ggplot2 ggraph igraph plotly quanteda quanteda.textstats tidytext

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Chao Liu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Chao Liu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Chao Liu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.4
2024-11-12
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-12
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 123 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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