R Observatory: Metrics for lingdist version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lingdist

1.0Package record

Fast Linguistic Distance and Alignment Computation

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chao KongCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A fast generalized edit distance and string alignment computation mainly for linguistic aims. As a generalization to the classic edit distance algorithms, the package allows users to define custom cost for every symbol's insertion, deletion, and substitution. The package also allows character combinations in any length to be seen as a single symbol which is very useful for International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions with diacritics. In addition to edit distance result, users can get detailed alignment information such as all possible alignment scenarios between two strings which is useful for testing, illustration or any further usage. Either the distance matrix or its long table form can be obtained and tools to do such conversions are provided. All functions in the package are implemented in 'C++' and the distance matrix computation is parallelized leveraging the 'RcppThread' package.

Changes in 1.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lingdist", 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("fncokg/lingdist")

Development version from fncokg/lingdist. 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-lingdist

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-lingdist

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-lingdist

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: 2.7 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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMEYes · 146 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,409 · ~6/day · ~171/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20230 days

59790 days

2.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on348 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

fncokg/lingdist ↗Account: fncokg

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

72Commits

1Commit identities

language-distancerrcpp

72 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19 · Default branch at 2.4.0, ahead of CRAN 1.0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-10-31 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fncokg/lingdist on 2026-10-25.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lingdist adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppThread 308 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppThread

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)

Chao Kong

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2023)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0Latest
record
2023-10-12 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-12
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 9.0 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lingdist")

Format

Kong, C. (2023). lingdist: Fast Linguistic Distance and Alignment Computation (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lingdist

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 lingdist version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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