R Observatory: Metrics for edlibR version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

edlibR

1.0.3

R Integration for Edlib, the C/C++ Library for Exact Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Edit (Levenshtein) Distance

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

65.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtFirst published 2022-01-124 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bindings to edlib, a lightweight performant C/C++ library for exact pairwise sequence alignment using edit distance (Levenshtein distance). The algorithm computes the optimal alignment path, but also can be used to find only the start and/or end of the alignment path for convenience. Edlib was designed to be ultrafast and require little memory, with the capability to handle very large sequences. Three alignment methods are supported: global (Needleman-Wunsch), infix (Hybrid Wunsch), and prefix (Semi-Hybrid Wunsch). The original C/C++ library is described in "Edlib: a C/C++ library for fast, exact sequence alignment using edit distance", M. Šošić, M. Šikić, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw753.

Install

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

install.packages("edlibR", 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("evanbiederstedt/edlibR")

Development version from evanbiederstedt/edlibR. 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-edlibr

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-edlibR

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-edlibR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.28

65.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-25
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 4 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-09
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-28
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 850 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,168 · ~9/day · ~261/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16830 days

74490 days

3.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ evanbiederstedt/edlibr

11Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

23Commits

2Contributors

23 commits · Last activity 2025-07-20

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/evanbiederstedt/edlibr on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

CircleCI

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

Rcpp stringr

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

testthat rmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Evan Biederstedt

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Evan Biederstedt

Author, Maintainer

Martin Šošić

Author

Contributors (1)

Travers Ching

Contributor · added in 1.0.3

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
2025-07-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.2
2024-02-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.1
2022-11-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2022-01-12
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-12
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 39 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Biederstedt, E., Ching, T., & Šošić, M. (2025). edlibR: R Integration for Edlib, the C/C++ Library for Exact Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Edit (Levenshtein) Distance (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.edlibR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for edlibR version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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