R Observatory: Metrics for NameNeedle version 1.2.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NameNeedle

1.2.10

Using Needleman-Wunsch to Match Sample Names

1packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

86.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin R. CoombesFirst published 2017-07-115 releasesCRAN page ↗

The Needleman-Wunsch global alignment algorithm can be used to find approximate matches between sample names in different data sets. See Wang et al. (2010) doi:10.4137/CIN.S5613.

Install

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

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

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

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-nameneedle

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-NameNeedle

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-NameNeedle

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.88

86.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-18
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-10
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 3 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,334 · ~12/day · ~379/mo

Releases R versions

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16130 days

1K90 days

4.5K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (1)

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none

Suggests (1)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

SVAlignR

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin R. Coombes

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kevin R. Coombes

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Coombes

no longer listed · 1.2.8 to 1.2.10

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-11
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 1.9 KB / 1 file
Download size: 103 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("NameNeedle")

Format

Coombes, K. R. (2026). NameNeedle: Using Needleman-Wunsch to Match Sample Names (Version 1.2.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NameNeedle

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NameNeedle version 1.2.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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