R Observatory: Metrics for fuzzystring version 0.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fuzzystring

0.0.6Package record

Fast Fuzzy String Joins for Data Frames

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

78.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul E. Santos AndradeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Perform fuzzy joins on data frames using approximate string matching. Implements inner, left, right, full, semi, and anti joins with string distance metrics from the 'stringdist' package, including Optimal String Alignment, Levenshtein, Damerau-Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, q-gram, cosine, Jaccard, and Soundex. Uses a 'data.table' backend plus compiled 'C++' result assembly to reduce overhead in large joins, while adaptive candidate planning avoids unnecessary distance evaluations in single-column string joins. Suitable for reconciling misspellings, inconsistent labels, and other near-match identifiers while optionally returning the computed distance for each match. Bibliographic references include the 'stringdist' package documentation (2014) https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stringdist and Robinson, D. (2015) https://github.com/dgrtwo/fuzzyjoin.

Changes in 0.0.6

fuzzystring_join() now validates join arguments before planning, prevents distance-column name collisions, reports the maximum component distance for multi-column joins, rejects results that exceed supported index sizes, and uses a keyed exact-match route for safe max_dist = 0 calls (stability and performance audit).
Guard test bootstrap so CRAN pretests do not fail when testthat is unavailable from Suggests.
Capitalized Jaccard in DESCRIPTION to avoid the incoming feasibility note.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fuzzystring", 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("PaulESantos/fuzzystring")

Development version from PaulESantos/fuzzystring. 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-fuzzystring

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-fuzzystring

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-fuzzystring

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

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Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,151 · ~9/day · ~263/mo

fuzzystring Releases R versions

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87090 days

3.2K1 year

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Repository

paulesantos/fuzzystring ↗Account: PaulESantos

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

35Commits

1Commit identities

35 commits · Last activity 2026-07-06 · 0% stars, 30d

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulesantos/fuzzystring on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

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The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

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Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-06, before release 0.0.6 (2026-07-24)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fuzzystring adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 8.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, stringdist 843 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (3)

data.table Rcpp stringdist

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (11)

dplyr ggplot2 knitr qdapDictionaries readr rmarkdown rvest stringr testthat tibble tidyr

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People (2)

Paul E. Santos Andrade

David Robinson

Contributor

aut of fuzzyjoin

Releases (3)

0.0.6Latest
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2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.5
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2026-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
fstring_anti_join, fstring_full_join, fstring_inner_join, fstring_left_join, fstring_right_join, fstring_semi_join
0.0.1
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2026-02-08
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-08
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 278 KB

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Format

Santos Andrade, P. E., & Robinson, D. (2026). fuzzystring: Fast Fuzzy String Joins for Data Frames (Version 0.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fuzzystring

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fuzzystring version 0.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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