R Observatory: Metrics for fuzzylink version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fuzzylink

0.4.1Package record

Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe OrnsteinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Links datasets through fuzzy string matching using pretrained text embeddings. Produces more accurate record linkage when lexical string distance metrics are a poor guide to match quality (e.g., "Patricia" is more lexically similar to "Patrick" than it is to "Trish"). Capable of performing multilingual record linkage. Methods are described in Ornstein (2025) doi:10.1017/pan.2025.10016.

Changes in 0.4.1

Fixed a redirecting URL in DESCRIPTION for CRAN resubmission

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fuzzylink", 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("joeornstein/fuzzylink")

Development version from joeornstein/fuzzylink. 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-fuzzylink

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-fuzzylink

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-fuzzylink

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 54 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 1,528 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 13%1 run in a plain check · 7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,450 · ~10/day · ~318/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27530 days

76890 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

joeornstein/fuzzylink ↗Account: joeornstein

22Stars

6Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

294Commits

4Commit identities

294 commits · Last activity 2026-08-04 · +4.8% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.1, ahead of CRAN 0.4.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 174
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 7

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 152026-10-01 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joeornstein/fuzzylink on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-14
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.61 commit · Apr 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fuzzylink adds 42 packages (29 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, promises 3.1 MB, ellmer 3.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

statsutilsdplyr Rfast reshape2 stringdist stringr httr jsonlite httr2 ranger ellmer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Joe Ornstein

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-14
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 19 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fuzzylink")

Format

Ornstein, J. (2026). fuzzylink: Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fuzzylink

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 fuzzylink version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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