textdata

0.4.5

Download and Load Various Text Datasets

6packages depend

133.8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtFirst published 2019-06-129 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a framework to download, parse, and store text datasets on the disk and load them when needed. Includes various sentiment lexicons and labeled text data sets for classification and analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("textdata", 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/textdata")

Development version from EmilHvitfeldt/textdata. 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-textdata

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-textdata

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ emilhvitfeldt/textdata

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143 commits · Last activity 2024-05-28

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

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8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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People (2)

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Emil Hvitfeldt

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Emil Hvitfeldt

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Contributors (1)

Julia Silge

Contributor

Package Timeline

9 releases. 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-06 · diff ↗
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2019-08-28 · diff ↗
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2019-07-22 · diff ↗
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2019-06-12

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-12
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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