hunspell
High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker
Low level spell checker and morphological analyzer based on the famous 'hunspell' library < https://hunspell.github.io>. The package can analyze or check individual words as well as parse text, latex, html or xml documents. For a more user-friendly interface use the 'spelling' package which builds on this package to automate checking of files, documentation and vignettes in all common formats.
High-Performance Stemmer, Tokenizer, and Spell Checker for R
famous hunspell library https://hunspell.github.io. The package can analyze
or check individual words as well as tokenize text, latex, html or xml documents.
For a more user-friendly interface use the 'spelling' package which builds on
this package with utilities to automate checking of files, documentation and
vignettes in all common formats.
Installation
This package includes a bundled version of libhunspell and no longer depends on external system libraries:
install.packages("hunspell")Documentation
About the R package:
- Blog post: Hunspell: Spell Checker and Text Parser for R
- Blog post: Stemming and Spell Checking in R
Hello World
# Check individual wordswords <- c("beer", "wiskey", "wine")correct <- hunspell_check(words)print(correct) # Find suggestions for incorrect wordshunspell_suggest(words[!correct]) # Extract incorrect from a piece of textbad <- hunspell("spell checkers are not neccessairy for langauge ninja's")print(bad[[1]])hunspell_suggest(bad[[1]]) # Stemmingwords <- c("love", "loving", "lovingly", "loved", "lover", "lovely", "love")hunspell_stem(words)hunspell_analyze(words)The spelling package uses this package to spell R package documentation:
# Spell check a packagelibrary(spelling)spell_check_package("~/mypackage")
News
3.0
- Update bundled libhunspell to v1.7. This seems like a pretty major update, see upstream release notes: https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/blob/master/NEWS
- Add rstudio directory to the search path to use dictionariesinstalled via the RStudio IDE (Global Options -> Spelling -> Main Dictionary Language -> Install)
- Updated bundled en_US and en_GB dictionary to Open Office release 2018-11.01: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/english-dictionaries/2018-11.01
- Workaround for adding custom words containing 'right single quotation mark', these now always get converted to regular apostrophe.
2.9
- BREAKING: Bundled en_US / en_GB dictionaries now support apostrophe
- Parses now uses the dictionary WORDCHARS for tokenizing text
- Removed numbers from en_US / en_GB WORDCHARS to prevent false positives
- Fix regression inroduced in the caching fix in 2.8
- Refactored internal dictionary caching
- Add 'AUTHORS' file and update DESCRIPTION as requested by CRAN
2.8
- Fix caching bug for 'ignore' argument in hunspell()
- Rename class 'dictionary' to 'hunspell_dictionary' to avoid collisions
- Remove setwd() from examples as requested by CRAN
2.7
- Update bundled en_US / en_GB dictionaries from libreoffice extensions
- Use Rcpp symbol registration / visibility
- Properly pass down missing values
- Added workaround for issue #29 (case sensitivity in custom wordlist)
2.6
- Compile libhunspell with 'attribute((visibility("hidden")))' to solve a symbol conflict in rstudio (which also has libhunspell)
2.5
- Add parameter 'add_words' to dictionary()
2.4
- Update libhunspell to upstream v1.6.1
- Update maintainer info
- Add mandatory symbol registration
2.3
- Update libhunspell to upstream v1.5.4
- Change intro.rmd vignette to clean up downloaded files
2.2
- Tweak code to make it build on old compilers (CentOS6 / gcc 4.4.7)
2.1
- Update upstream to a6d32ee
- Rebuild vignettes to fix CMD check timestamp warning
2.0
- Added a beautiful intro vignette
- Dictionaries are now their own class and get cached automatically via memoise
- Make sure UTF-8 return values are marked properly. Fixes #16
- Update libhunspell to upstream 4b43843
1.4.3
- Fix UBSAN bug
- Remove unused 'config.h' file (see upstream 2ccf840)
1.4.2
- Switch to R's iconv wrapper which is more portable (thnx BDR)
1.4.1
- Change license to cover libhunspell (per CRAN request).
1.4
- Switch to bundled libhunspell because their API keeps breaking
- Include libhunspell 1.5-pre (b13e62a)
- Add parsers for HTML/XML formats
1.2
- (Breaking) Rename 'hunspell_find' to 'hunspell'
- Add support for other dictionaries
- Use iconv() to convert encoding before checking
- Use the 'en_stats' dict as default ignore list
1.1
- Switch to hunspell parsers (replaced 'delim' with 'format' parameter)
1.0
- Initial CRAN release