sumer: Sumerian Cuneiform Text Analysis

Provides functions for converting transliterated Sumerian texts to sign names and cuneiform characters, creating and querying dictionaries, analyzing the structure of Sumerian words, and creating translations. Includes a built-in dictionary and supports both forward lookup (Sumerian to English) and reverse lookup (English to Sumerian).

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: stringr, officer, xml2, cli, rlang, ggplot2, ragg, shiny
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-02-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sumer
Author: Robin Wellmann [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Robin Wellmann <ro.wellmann at gmail.com>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: yes
CRAN checks: sumer results

Documentation:

Reference manual: sumer.html , sumer.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with sumer (source, R code)
Translating Sumerian Texts (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: sumer_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: sumer_1.1.0.zip, r-release: sumer_1.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: sumer_1.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): sumer_1.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): sumer_1.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): sumer_1.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): sumer_1.1.0.tgz
Old sources: sumer archive

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