  Monitoring progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) is important for both academic and non-academic organizations. Existing
approaches to monitoring SDGs have focused on specific data types; namely,
publications listed in proprietary research databases. We present the text2sdg
package for the R language, a user-friendly, open-source package that detects
SDGs in any kind of text data using different existing or custom-made query
systems. The text2sdg package thereby facilitates the monitoring of SDGs for a
wide array of text sources and provides a much-needed basis for validating and
improving extant methods to detect SDGs from text.
