Package: sumer 1.6.0

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).

Authors:Robin Wellmann [aut, cre]

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# Install 'sumer' in R:

install.packages('sumer', repos = c('https://rowellmann.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

On CRAN:

This package does not link to any Github/Gitlab/R-forge repository. No issue tracker or development information is available.

3.15 score 1 scripts 472 downloads 25 exports 62 dependencies

Last updated from:96040e2c78. Checks:13 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	164
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	171
source / vignettes	OK	217
linux-release-arm64	OK	143
linux-release-x86_64	OK	170
macos-release-arm64	OK	114
macos-release-x86_64	OK	198
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	96
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	163
windows-devel	OK	135
windows-release	OK	111
windows-oldrel	OK	189
wasm-release	OK	116

Exports:apply_translation_rules as.cuneiform as.sign_name convert_to_dictionary fill_substr_info grammar_probs grammatical_structure guess_substr_info info look_up make_dictionary mark_ngrams merge_dictionaries ngram_frequencies plot_sign_grammar prior_probs read_dictionary read_translated_text save_dictionary sign_grammar skeleton split_sumerian translate translate_line translation_context

Dependencies:askpass base64enc bslib cachem cli commonmark cpp11 digest dplyr farver fastmap fontawesome fs generics ggplot2 glue gtable htmltools httpuv isoband jquerylib jsonlite labeling later lifecycle magrittr memoise mime officer openssl otel pillar pkgconfig promises purrr R6 ragg rappdirs RColorBrewer Rcpp rlang S7 sass scales shiny sourcetools stringi stringr sys systemfonts textshaping tibble tidyr tidyselect utf8 uuid vctrs viridisLite withr xml2 xtable zip

Getting Started with sumer

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Last update: 2026-05-05
Started: 2026-02-28

Translating Sumerian Texts

Rendered fromtranslating-texts.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 05 2026.

Last update: 2026-03-22
Started: 2026-02-28

Citation

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Apply Translation Rules to a Bracketed Structure String	apply_translation_rules
Convert Transliterated Sumerian Text to Cuneiform	as.cuneiform as.cuneiform.character as.cuneiform.default print.cuneiform
Convert Transliterated Sumerian Text to Sign Names	as.sign_name as.sign_name.character as.sign_name.default print.sign_name
Convert Translation Data to a Sumerian Dictionary	convert_to_dictionary
Read Back a Saved Translation into a Substring Data Frame	fill_substr_info
Posterior Probabilities of Grammatical Types for Each Sign	grammar_probs
Grammatical Structure of a Sumerian Expression	grammatical_structure print.grammatical_structure
Look Up Translations for All Substrings of a Sumerian Text	guess_substr_info
Retrieve Information About Sumerian Signs	info print.info
Look Up Sumerian Signs or Search for Translations	look_up print.look_up
Create a Sumerian Dictionary from Annotated Text Files	make_dictionary
Mark N-gram Combinations in Cuneiform Text	mark_ngrams
Merge Two or More Sumerian Dictionaries	merge_dictionaries
Frequency Analysis of Cuneiform Sign Combinations (N-grams)	ngram_frequencies
Stacked Bar Chart of Grammatical Type Frequencies	plot_sign_grammar
Prior Probabilities of Grammatical Types	prior_probs
Read a Sumerian Dictionary from File	read_dictionary
Read Annotated Sumerian Translations from Text Files	read_translated_text
Save a Sumerian Dictionary to File	save_dictionary
Grammatical Type Frequencies for Each Sign in a Sumerian Sentence	sign_grammar
Create a Translation Template for Sumerian Text	print.skeleton skeleton
Split a String into Sumerian Signs and Separators	split_sumerian
Interactive Translation Tool for Sumerian Text	translate
Line-by-Line Translation of a Sumerian Text	translate_line translation_context