R Observatory: Metrics for FlexRL version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FlexRL

1.0.0Package record

Flexible Record Linkage and Linked Data Quality Assessment

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kayané ROBACHCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Probabilistically link records that refer to the same entities across two data sources without a unique identifier, using partially identifying variables such as product code, brand, category, birth year, sex or postal code. 'FlexRL' implements a Stochastic Expectation Maximisation (StEM) approach to Record Linkage (Robach et al., 2025, doi:10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf016). The model accounts for registration errors (missing values and mistakes) and for variables that change over time, enforces one-to-one assignment, and has a low memory footprint. The package also provides tools for inference on linked data: two estimators of the false discovery proportion of a linkage (Robach et al., 2025, doi:10.1002/sim.70292), based on linkage scores and on synthetic data, and diagnostics comparing the linked sample with the source data. These tools also apply on the linkage output of other record linkage packages.

Changes in 1.0.0

Functions and arguments renamed, data configuration functions added.
New survival_model(): the change over time of a structured PIV can be modelled with an exponential (default), Weibull, Gompertz, piecewise-constant or user-defined survival function, passed to StEM() through the survival_model argument. alpha chains are named after the model parameters. SurvivalUnstable() and loglikSurvival() are obsolete. cond_hazard_params are now given on the parameter scale of the model (log-hazards for the exponential model).
New RL_diagnostics(): provides record linkage diagnostics over linkage decision rules (thresholds from 0.50 to 0.99); internally computes FDP_measures and discrepancy_measures useful for downstream inference; print(x, threshold = ) and plot(x, type = ) display the diagnostics,

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New link_with_<pkg>() record linkage wrappers created for several packages: multilink, fastLink, BRL, reclin2, diyar, fedmatch, FlexRL. They return a named list (idxA, idxB, LinkScore) that can be passed directly to RL_diagnostics().
Useless dependencies dropped; R >= 4.1.0.
Bugs corrected, warnings added.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("FlexRL", 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("robachowyk/FlexRL")

Development version from robachowyk/FlexRL. 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-flexrl

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-FlexRL

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-FlexRL

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-10
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 36includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 74%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

FlexRL-RL-vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,135 · ~14/day · ~431/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45030 days

1K90 days

5.2K1 year

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Also on420 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

robachowyk/flexrl ↗Account: robachowyk

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

95Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 95 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1, ahead of CRAN 1.0.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 215
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-01-22 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/robachowyk/flexrl on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-14

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FlexRL adds 130 packages (76 with compiled code, 116 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

MatrixRcpp cligraphicsgrDevicesstatsutilsBRL arf diyar fastLink fedmatch mice multilink reclin2 synthpop

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Kayané ROBACH

Michel H. HOF

Author, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Michel H.

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 1.0.0

Releases (3)

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1.0.0Latest
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2026-10-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 20 exports
DataCreation, Deltafind, ExpandGrid, F2, F33, SurvivalUnstable, cartesianProduct, createDataAlpha, generateSequence, initDeltaMap, launchNaive, logPossibleConfig, loglik, loglikSurvival, sampleD, sampleH, sampleL, sampleNL, sspaste2, stEM

added 29 exports
FDP_score, FDP_synth, RL_agreement, RL_diagnostics, StEM, compute_RL_FDP_score, compute_augmRL_FDP_synth, create_data_alpha, link_with_BRL, link_with_FlexRL, link_with_diyar, link_with_fastLink, link_with_fedmatch, link_with_multilink, link_with_reclin2, log_lik, log_possible_config, mmd, naive_linkage, plot_StEM_convergence, plot_distributions, plot_linkage_scores, prepare_data, prop_level, simulate_data, smd, support_iou, survival_model, synthesise
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1
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2025-09-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2024-12-09
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-09
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("FlexRL")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf016.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FlexRL version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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