R Observatory: Metrics for blink version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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blink

1.1.0Package record

Record Linkage for Empirically Motivated Priors

1packages dependsuggested by 1

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rebecca SteortsCRAN page ↗

An implementation of the model in Steorts (2015) DOI:10.1214/15-BA965SI, which performs Bayesian entity resolution for categorical and text data, for any distance function defined by the user. In addition, the precision and recall are in the package to allow one to compare to any other comparable method such as logistic regression, Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), or random forests. The experiments are reproducible and illustrated using a simple vignette. LICENSE: GPL-3 + file license.

Install

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

install.packages("blink", 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-blink

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-blink

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-blink

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) RLdata500.Rd:8: Lost braces
     8 | A data frame with five variables: \code{fname_c1},\code{lname_c1},  \code{by}, code{bm}, \code{bd}.
       |                                                                                    ^
checkRd: (-1) identity.RLdata500.Rd:15: Lost braces
    15 | format A vector that contains the code{id}
       |                                       ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Partitions HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,101 · ~10/day · ~312/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32130 days

1K90 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on140 r2u16 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing blink adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, stringdist 843 KB, plyr 392 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.0.2stringdist plyr

Imports (2)

statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

klsh

Suggests, most downloaded first

chomper

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Rebecca Steorts

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Releases (3)

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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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-10-06
1.1.0Latest
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2020-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-02-02
requires archived package 'RecordLinkage' And had check errors
1.0.0
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2019-12-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2017-08-07
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-07
Total releases: 3 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 4.9 KB / 2 files
Download size: 35 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("blink")

Format

Steorts, R. (2020). blink: Record Linkage for Empirically Motivated Priors (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blink

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 blink version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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