R Observatory: Metrics for fedmatch version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fedmatch

2.1.0

Fast, Flexible, and User-Friendly Record Linkage Methods

1packages depend

11.1Kdownloads / year

74.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris WebsterFirst published 2021-07-207 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides a flexible set of tools for matching two un-linked data sets. 'fedmatch' allows for three ways to match data: exact matches, fuzzy matches, and multi-variable matches. It also allows an easy combination of these three matches via the tier matching function.

Install

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

install.packages("fedmatch", 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-fedmatch

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-fedmatch

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-fedmatch

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.43

74.0%

Coverage · measured lines

93%

Documentation · exports

10

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

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 · 263 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,263 · ~30/day · ~927/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39330 days

1.9K90 days

11.1K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.3

Imports (10)

stringdist SnowballC stringr purrr Rcppparallelforcats data.table magrittr scales

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

arete

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Chris Webster

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

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Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.0Latest
2025-01-31 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-01-31
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-01-10
issues were not corrected in time Issue is in use of 'stringdist'
2.0.6
2024-05-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.5
2021-11-22 · diff ↗
2.0.4
2021-10-28 · diff ↗
2.0.3
2021-09-08 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2021-08-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-08-04
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-03
check problems were not corrected in time
2.0.0
2021-07-20

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R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-20
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.3
Bundled data: 8.2 KB / 8 files
Download size: 122 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fedmatch")

Format

Webster, C., Dice, J., Friedrichs, M., Lee, S., & Marsh, B. (2025). fedmatch: Fast, Flexible, and User-Friendly Record Linkage Methods (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fedmatch

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 fedmatch version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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