cidian: Read and Parse Chinese Input-Method Dictionaries

Read Chinese input-method dictionary files into a common 'R' data model. The 'Rust' backend supports Sogou, QQ Pinyin, and Baidu dictionary formats and preserves source metadata, code components, and weights. This is useful for building a custom Chinese word segmentation dictionary.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.2)
Imports: cli, rlang
Suggests: rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cidian (may not be active yet)
Author: Hao Cheng [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Hao Cheng <Yousa-Mirage at foxmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Yousa-Mirage/r-cidian/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Yousa-Mirage/r-cidian
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: Cargo (Rust's package manager), rustc >= 1.85.0, xz
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: cidian results

Documentation:

Reference manual: cidian.html , cidian.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: cidian_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): cidian_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cidian_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cidian_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cidian_0.1.0.tgz

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cidian to link to this page.