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emuR vs statsExpressions
A side-by-side editorial comparison of emuR and statsExpressions — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
emuR vs statsExpressions: at a glance
What is emuR?
The R half of the EMU speech database system, fixing what was quietly broken.
emuR is the R interface to the EMU Speech Database Management System — loading annotated speech corpora, running hierarchical queries over annotation levels, extracting signal track data, and serving corpora to the EMU-webApp for browser-based annotation. It is at 2.6.0 on a slow cadence of roughly one release a year. Recent work has centred on the CRUD operations for annotation items and on widening what serve() can hand the web application.
What is statsExpressions?
A statistics backend whose release history is mostly other people's weather
statsExpressions produces the tidy dataframes and plotmath expressions that ggstatsplot prints onto plots, and that position defines its changelog. Six of its ten most recent versions exist to absorb API changes in easystats, dplyr or purrr. Version 2.0.0 is the exception, cut to accompany ggstatsplot's own 1.0.0 and carrying pairwise Fisher's exact post hocs for contingency tables.
emuR vs statsExpressions: editorial side-by-side
emuR
0.0INFRA · APIS
The R half of the EMU speech database system, fixing what was quietly broken.
◆ Current state
emuR is the R interface to the EMU Speech Database Management System — loading annotated speech corpora, running hierarchical queries over annotation levels, extracting signal track data, and serving corpora to the EMU-webApp for browser-based annotation. It is at 2.6.0 on a slow cadence of roughly one release a year. Recent work has centred on the CRUD operations for annotation items and on widening what serve() can hand the web application.
◆ Where it's heading
The releases read as a package being brought up to the standard its own API implied. delete_itemsInLevel() shipped in 2.1.1 as a first version, was described in 2.5.0 as heavily flawed and now usable, and the create/update/delete family is still called ongoing work. Alongside that, the query engine was rewritten onto CTEs and the signal-processing layer is being opened past the bundled wrassp, starting with Matlab. Speed work recurs — SQLite transactions, prepared statements, on-the-fly caching — consistent with corpora outgrowing the original design.
◆ Prediction
Two threads are explicitly unfinished: the CRUD documentation and behaviour, described as ongoing, and the add_signalVia family, described as a draft starting with Matlab. Expect the next release to advance one of them rather than open new ground.
statsExpressions
0.0INFRA · APIS
A statistics backend whose release history is mostly other people's weather
◆ Current state
statsExpressions produces the tidy dataframes and plotmath expressions that ggstatsplot prints onto plots, and that position defines its changelog. Six of its ten most recent versions exist to absorb API changes in easystats, dplyr or purrr. Version 2.0.0 is the exception, cut to accompany ggstatsplot's own 1.0.0 and carrying pairwise Fisher's exact post hocs for contingency tables.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a component settling into place beneath a larger package rather than a product with its own roadmap. New statistical content arrives rarely and narrowly — an exact-p toggle, one post-hoc function — while the recurring work is keeping expressions correct as the easystats stack shifts underneath. The one bug class it keeps returning to is rendering: p-values of exactly zero, decimal commas that plotmath parses as list separators.
◆ Prediction
Coupled this tightly, the next release is most likely another compatibility pass timed to an easystats or ggstatsplot version rather than new tests. Nothing in these entries signals an independent feature direction.
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Recent activity from emuR and statsExpressions
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3mo agostatsExpressionsPairwise Fisher's post hocs for contingency tables
- 4mo agostatsExpressionsInternal maintenance only, no user-facing changes
- 6mo agostatsExpressionsAdapts to dplyr 1.2.0 and purrr 1.2.1
- 6mo agostatsExpressionsAdapts to changes in the easystats packages
- 8mo agoemuRemuR 2.6.0
- 1y agoemuRemuR 2.5.1
- 1y agoemuRemuR 2.5.0
- 1y agostatsExpressionsFixes p-value rendering when p is exactly zero
- 1y agostatsExpressionscentrality_description() follows the new easystats API
- 3y agoemuRemuR 2.4.0
- 5y agoemuRemuR 2.3.0
- 5y agoemuRemuR 2.2.0
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between emuR and statsExpressions?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. emuR and statsExpressions are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is emuR better than statsExpressions?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. emuR and statsExpressions are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to emuR?
Top emuR alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "emuR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/emur for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to statsExpressions?
Top statsExpressions alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "statsExpressions alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/statsexpressions for the full list with editorial commentary on each.