R Observatory: Metrics for validateIt version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

validateIt

1.2.1

Validating Topic Coherence and Topic Labels

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1.8Kdownloads / year

27.4%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Luwei YingFirst published 2023-05-161 releasesCRAN page ↗

By creating crowd-sourcing tasks that can be easily posted and results retrieved using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) API, researchers can use this solution to validate the quality of topics obtained from unsupervised or semi-supervised learning methods, and the relevance of topic labels assigned. This helps ensure that the topic modeling results are accurate and useful for research purposes. See Ying and others (2022) doi:10.1101/2023.05.02.538599. For more information, please visit https://github.com/Triads-Developer/Topic_Model_Validation.

Install

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

install.packages("validateIt", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-validateit

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-validateIt

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-validateIt

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.16

27.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMEYes · 153 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,260 · ~5/day · ~151/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

pyMTurkR rlang tm here SnowballC

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

roxygen2 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Luwei Ying

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Luwei Ying

Author, Maintainer

Jacob Montgomery

Author

Brandon Stewart

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-16
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 170 KB / 10 files
Download size: 200 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("validateIt")

CRAN DOI

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

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{validateIt,
  title  = {validateIt: Validating Topic Coherence and Topic Labels},
  author = {Ying, Luwei and Montgomery, Jacob and Stewart, Brandon},
  year   = {2023},
  note   = {R package version 1.2.1},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.validateIt},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=validateIt}
}

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

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryvalidateIt,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {validateIt} version 1.2.1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/validateIt},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for validateIt version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/validateIt

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for validateIt version 1.2.1
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
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In prose

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

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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