fastText

The fastText R package is an interface to the fastText library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification. More details on the functionality of fastText can be found in my blog-post and in the package documentation.

To install the package from Github you can either use the install_github function of the devtools package,

devtools::install_github('mlampros/fastText')

or directly download the fastText-zip file using the Clone or download button in the repository page, extract it locally (rename it to fastText if necessary and check that files such as DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE etc. are present when you open the fastText folder) and then run,

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# on a Unix OS
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setwd('/your_folder/fastText/')
Rcpp::compileAttributes(verbose = TRUE)
setwd('/your_folder/')
system("R CMD build fastText")
system("R CMD INSTALL fastText_1.0.0.tar.gz")


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# on the Windows OS  
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setwd('C:/your_folder/fastText/')
Rcpp::compileAttributes(verbose = TRUE)
setwd('C:/your_folder/')
system("R CMD build fastText")
system("R CMD INSTALL fastText_1.0.0.tar.gz")

Use the following link to report bugs/issues (for the R wrapper),

https://github.com/mlampros/fastText/issues