R Observatory: Metrics for comparator version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

comparator

0.1.4

Comparison Functions for Clustering and Record Linkage

0packages depend

8.3Kdownloads / year

68.2%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Neil MarchantFirst published 2020-12-104 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements functions for comparing strings, sequences and numeric vectors for clustering and record linkage applications. Supported comparison functions include: generalized edit distances for comparing sequences/strings, Monge-Elkan similarity for fuzzy comparison of token sets, and L-p distances for comparing numeric vectors. Where possible, comparison functions are implemented in C/C++ to ensure good performance.

Install

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

install.packages("comparator", 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("ngmarchant/comparator")

Development version from ngmarchant/comparator. 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-comparator

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-comparator

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-comparator

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

68.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 249 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 24%

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,215 · ~23/day · ~692/mo

Releases R versions

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30530 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ngmarchant/comparator

19Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

57Commits

1Contributors

r-packagedistance-measuressimilarity-measuresstring-similarityrecord-linkagedistance-metricsentity-resolutionclustering

License GPL-2.0 · 57 commits · Last activity 2025-09-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-01-30 · 182026-07-07 · 19

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ngmarchant/comparator on 2026-08-16.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

Rcpp proxymethodsclue

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Neil Marchant

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Neil Marchant

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-10
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 55 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("comparator")

Format

Marchant, N. (2025). comparator: Comparison Functions for Clustering and Record Linkage (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.comparator

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for comparator version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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