childesr: Accessing the 'CHILDES' Database

Tools for connecting to 'CHILDES', an open repository for transcripts of parent-child interaction. For more information on the underlying data, see <https://langcog.github.io/childes-db-website/>.

Version: 0.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4)
Imports: dplyr (≥ 1.2), jsonlite (≥ 2.0), magrittr (≥ 2.0), purrr (≥ 1.0), rlang (≥ 1.1)
Suggests: redivis (≥ 0.11.0), knitr, rmarkdown, curl, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.childesr
Author: Michael C. Frank [aut, cre, cph], Mika Braginsky [aut], Alessandro Sanchez [aut, ctb], Daniel Yurovsky [aut], Kyle MacDonald [ctb], Stephan Meylan [ctb], Jessica Mankewitz [ctb]
Maintainer: Michael C. Frank <mcfrank at stanford.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/langcog/childesr/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/langcog/childesr, https://langcog.github.io/childesr/
NeedsCompilation: no
Additional_repositories: https://langcog.r-universe.dev
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: childesr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: childesr.html , childesr.pdf
Vignettes: Accessing childes-db (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: childesr_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: childesr_0.2.3.zip, r-release: childesr_0.2.3.zip, r-oldrel: childesr_0.2.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): childesr_0.2.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): childesr_0.2.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): childesr_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): childesr_0.3.0.tgz
Old sources: childesr archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: childeswordfreq

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