R Observatory: Metrics for fuzzystring version 0.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fuzzystring

0.0.6

Fast Fuzzy String Joins for Data Frames

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

78.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul E. Santos AndradeFirst published 2026-02-083 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.52

78.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

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
OK2026-04-22
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 · 366 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,761 · ~7/day · ~211/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25230 days

1K90 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on232 r2u20 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ paulesantos/fuzzystring

5Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

35Commits

1Contributors

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

Stars over time

2026-02-17 · 12026-07-07 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paulesantos/fuzzystring on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesSupport guide

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Paul E. Santos Andrade

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Paul E. Santos Andrade

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

David Robinson

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Paul E. Santos Andrade

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.0.6Latest
2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.5
2026-03-28 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2026-03-10
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
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 34 KB / 1 file
Download size: 278 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fuzzystring")

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

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 fuzzystring version 0.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →