R Observatory: Metrics for joinery version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

joinery

1.0.1Package record

Heuristic Index-Based Record Linkage

0packages depend

1.2Kdownloads / year

86.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eduard BrüllCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Links records that refer to the same entity across sources that share no common key, such as people, firms, or addresses with spelling variation, abbreviations, or reordered words. Linkage is described declaratively as a strategy that normalises, tokenises, phonetically encodes, weights, and blocks each field; candidate pairs are then scored by the rarity-weighted overlap of their tokens and every score is attributed back to individual tokens for explainability. Strategies compose into staged pipelines of exact, fuzzy, and optional embedding-based matching that carry unmatched records forward and resolve entities as connected components. The same strategy runs on an in-memory 'data.table' backend or an out-of-core 'DuckDB' backend, and diagnostic and calibration tools help tune a strategy and filter false positives. The token-retrieval heuristic follows Doherr (2023) doi:10.2139/ssrn.4326848.

Changes in 1.0.1

Bug fixes

DuckDB batch auto-tuning no longer probes the operating system for total RAM (sysctl on macOS, /proc/meminfo on Linux). It now reads the memory budget straight from the connection's own memory_limit setting, which defaults to 80% of system RAM and reflects any user override. This removes the shell call that broke on systems without sysctl on the PATH (the CRAN M1mac check failures, where batch planning errored with "argument is of length zero"), and makes the budget detection work identically on all platforms, including Windows.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("joinery", 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("edubruell/joinery")

Development version from edubruell/joinery. 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-joinery

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-joinery

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-joinery

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: 7.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-19
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-18
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK8 OK2026-07-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 624 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 85 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%41 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 58%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with joinery HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,053 · ~3/day · ~100/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34830 days

1K90 days

1.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on28 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

edubruell/joinery ↗Account: edubruell

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

116Commits

1Commit identities

116 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · Default branch at 1.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

not measured

Forks over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-10-12 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/edubruell/joinery on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-01, before release 1.0.1 (2026-07-07)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing joinery adds 18 packages (13 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

S7 rlang data.table igraph stringi phonics lubridate cli glue tinyplotgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

duckdb DBI dbplyr dplyr tidyllm tibble stringdist generics parsnip recipes workflows yardstick probably testthat withr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Eduard Brüll

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Releases (2)

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1.0.1Latest
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2026-07-07 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2026-07-07
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 153 KB / 8 files
Download size: 689 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("joinery")

Format

Brüll, E. (2026). joinery: Heuristic Index-Based Record Linkage (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.joinery

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for joinery version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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