R Observatory: Metrics for textpress version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

textpress

1.1.1

A Lightweight and Versatile NLP Toolkit

1packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jason TimmFirst published 2024-10-143 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A toolkit for web scraping, modular NLP pipelines, and text preparation for large language models. Organized around four core actions: fetching, reading, processing, and searching. Covers the full pipeline from raw web data acquisition to structural text processing and BM25 indexing. Supports multiple retrieval strategies including regex, dictionary matching, and ranked keyword search. Pipe-friendly with no heavy dependencies; all outputs are plain data frames or data.tables.

Install

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

install.packages("textpress", 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("jaytimm/textpress")

Development version from jaytimm/textpress. 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-textpress

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-textpress

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-textpress

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 552 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 64%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,818 · ~10/day · ~299/mo

Releases R versions

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16130 days

1.2K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jaytimm/textpress

3Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

145Commits

2Contributors

corpus-searchnlpweb-scraping

145 commits · Last activity 2026-03-18

Stars over time

2024-10-14 · 32026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jaytimm/textpress on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (10)

data.table httrMatrixrvest stringi stringr xml2 pbapply jsonlite lubridate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

SnowballC DT dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

puremoe

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jason Timm

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jason Timm

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 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
1.1.1Latest
2026-03-18 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.0
2026-02-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0
2024-10-14
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-14
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 30 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("textpress")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.textpress

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{textpress,
  title  = {textpress: A Lightweight and Versatile NLP Toolkit},
  author = {Timm, Jason},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.1.1},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.textpress},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=textpress}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatorytextpress,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {textpress} version 1.1.1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/textpress},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for textpress version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/textpress

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for textpress version 1.1.1
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/textpress
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/textpress.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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