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Text Alignment with Smith-Waterman

v0.1.5 · Nov 26, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Find similarities between texts using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. The algorithm performs local sequence alignment and determines similar regions between two strings. The Smith-Waterman algorithm is explained in the paper: "Identification of common molecular subsequences" by T.F.Smith and M.S.Waterman (1981), available at <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5>. This package implements the same logic for sequences of words and letters instead of molecular sequences.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp text.alignment

Version History

7 tracked
new 0.1.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1.5 ← 0.1.4 diff Nov 26, 2025
updated 0.1.4 ← 0.1.3 diff Sep 13, 2023
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Aug 16, 2022
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Sep 7, 2020
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Apr 22, 2020
new 0.1.0 Mar 29, 2020