childeswordfreq: Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES

Tools for extracting word and phrase frequencies from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database via the 'childesr' API. Supports type-level word counts, token-mode searches with simple wildcard patterns and part-of-speech filters, optional stemming, and Zipf-scaled frequencies. Provides normalization per number of tokens or utterances, speaker-role breakdowns, dataset summaries, and export to Excel workbooks for reproducible child language research. The CHILDES database is maintained at <https://talkbank.org/childes/>.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports: cachem, childesr, dplyr, memoise, rappdirs, readr, rlang, stats, tibble, tidyr, utils, writexl
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2025-11-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.childeswordfreq
Author: Nahar Albudoor [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Nahar Albudoor <n.albudoor at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/n-albudoor/childeswordfreq/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/n-albudoor/childeswordfreq
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: childeswordfreq results

Documentation:

Reference manual: childeswordfreq.html , childeswordfreq.pdf
Vignettes: childeswordfreq: Usage & Best Practices (source)

Downloads:

Package source: childeswordfreq_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: childeswordfreq_0.2.0.zip, r-release: childeswordfreq_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: childeswordfreq_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): childeswordfreq_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): childeswordfreq_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): childeswordfreq_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): childeswordfreq_0.2.0.tgz
Old sources: childeswordfreq archive

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