R Observatory: Metrics for BRL version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BRL

0.1.0Package record

Beta Record Linkage

2packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio SadinleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implementation of the record linkage methodology proposed by Sadinle (2017) doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612. It handles the bipartite record linkage problem, where two duplicate-free datafiles are to be merged.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BRL", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("msadinle/BRL")

Development version from msadinle/BRL. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-brl

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-BRL

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BRL

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Mauricio Sadinle <msadinle@uw.edu>’

Found the following URLs which should use \doi (with the DOI name only):
  File ‘BRL.Rd’:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612
  File ‘bipartiteGibbs.Rd’:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612
  File ‘compareRecords.Rd’:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612
  File ‘linkRecords.Rd’:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612
  File ‘twoFiles.Rd’:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1148612

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 646 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 60%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,221 · ~8/day · ~231/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36630 days

91190 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on363 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

msadinle/brl ↗Account: msadinle

7Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

8Commits

1Commit identities

8 commits · Last activity 2020-01-11

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 72026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/msadinle/brl on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BRL adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FlexRL bstrl

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Mauricio Sadinle

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2020-01-13 · current release
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-01-13
Total releases: 1 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 5.8 KB / 1 file
Download size: 24 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BRL")

Format

Sadinle, M. (2020). BRL: Beta Record Linkage (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BRL

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BRL version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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