R Observatory: Metrics for stringfish version 0.19.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stringfish

0.19.2Package record

Alt String Implementation

1packages depend

344.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Travers ChingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides an extendable, performant and multithreaded 'alt-string' implementation backed by 'C++' vectors and strings.

Install

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

install.packages("stringfish", 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("traversc/stringfish")

Development version from traversc/stringfish. 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-stringfish

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-stringfish

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-stringfish

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: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.19.2

READMEYes · 565 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 29
Examples that run: 100%29 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

stringfish

How these are measured

Downloads

344.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #590 · ~944/day · ~28.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.5K30 days

104.9K90 days

344.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.3K r2u1 autocran41.1K conda_forge124 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

traversc/stringfish ↗Account: traversc

72Stars

2Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

143Commits

6Commit identities

143 commits · Last activity 2026-08-04 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-11 · 712026-09-05 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/traversc/stringfish on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing stringfish adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (2)

Rcpp RcppParallel

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppParallel

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

97indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

qs2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Travers Ching

Yann Collet

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.13.2

Yann Collet is the author of the bundled xxHash code

Phillip Hazel

Contributor

Bundled PCRE2 code

Zoltan Herczeg

Contributor, Copyright holder

Bundled PCRE2 code

Martin Leitner-Ankerl

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.19.2

Bundled ankerl::unordered_dense code

Tilera Corporation

Copyright holder

Stack-less Just-In-Time compiler bundled with PCRE2

University of Cambridge

Copyright holder

Bundled PCRE2 code

Releases (21)

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0.19.2Latest
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2026-08-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.19.0
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2026-04-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
sf_convert

added 5 exports
sf_vector_create, slice_store_create, slice_store_create_with_size, convert_to_sf_vector, convert_to_slice_store
0.18.0
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2026-01-18 · diff ↗
0.17.0
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2025-07-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.16.0
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2023-11-28 · diff ↗
0.15.8
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2023-05-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.15.7
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2022-04-13 · diff ↗
0.15.5
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2021-12-01 · diff ↗
0.15.4
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2021-10-15 · diff ↗
0.15.3
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2021-10-10 · diff ↗
0.15.2
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2021-07-24 · diff ↗

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.15.1
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗
0.15.0
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2021-02-25 · diff ↗
0.14.2
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2020-09-05 · diff ↗
0.14.1
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2020-08-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
sf_convert, sf_equals, sf_compare, sf_concat, sfc
0.13.3
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2020-07-09 · diff ↗
0.13.2
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2020-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
sf_writeLines, sf_toupper, sf_tolower, sf_starts, sf_ends, sf_trim, sf_split, sf_match, string_identical
0.12.1
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2020-06-05 · diff ↗
0.12
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2020-06-04 · diff ↗
0.11
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2020-05-31 · diff ↗
removedRemoved from CRAN
2020-05-12
misrepresentation of copyright ownership Back on CRAN on 2020-05-31
0.1
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2020-05-11
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-11
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: Copyright for the bundled 'PCRE2' library is held by University of Cambridge, Zoltan Herczeg and Tilera Corporation (Stack-less Just-In-Time compiler); Copyright for the bundled 'xxHash' code is held by Yann Collet; Copyright for the bundled 'ankerl::unordered_dense' code is held by Martin Leitner-Ankerl.
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("stringfish")

Format

Ching, T., Tilera Corporation, University of Cambridge, Collet, Y., Hazel, P., Herczeg, Z., & Leitner-Ankerl, M. (2026). stringfish: Alt String Implementation (Version 0.19.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.stringfish

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stringfish version 0.19.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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