R Observatory: Metrics for RapidFuzz version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RapidFuzz

1.1.1Package record

String Similarity Computation Using 'RapidFuzz'

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andre LeiteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Provides a high-performance interface for calculating string similarities and distances, leveraging the efficient library 'RapidFuzz' https://github.com/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-cpp. This package integrates the 'C++' implementation, allowing 'R' users to access cutting-edge algorithms for fuzzy matching and text analysis. Supported metrics include Levenshtein, Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Jaro, Jaro-Winkler, Longest Common Subsequence (LCS), Optimal String Alignment (OSA), Indel, Prefix, and Postfix distances and similarities, as well as multiple fuzzy matching ratios.

Changes in 1.1.1

Minor Changes

Updated the bundled rapidfuzz-cpp C++ library from v3.3.3 to **v3.3.4**:
Fixed a potential out-of-bounds access inside Editops::remove_subsequence.
Added missing standard library includes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RapidFuzz", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rapidfuzz

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-RapidFuzz

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-RapidFuzz

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: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 785 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 61
Examples that run: 100%53 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 87%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to RapidFuzz HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,294 · ~17/day · ~515/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32830 days

1K90 days

6.2K1 year

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Also on366 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

strategicprojects/rapidfuzz ↗Organization: StrategicProjects

8Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

17Commits

1Commit identities

17 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-02-05 · 42026-08-18 · 8

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/strategicprojects/rapidfuzz on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-29

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-31

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-29
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 8 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 54 commits · Aug 2026
Claude Opus 5.53 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 4.81 commit · Jun 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RapidFuzz adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp cli

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Andre Leite

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2024)

Carlos Amorim

Author · added in 1.1.1

Diogo Bezerra

Author · added in 1.1.0

Hugo Vaconcelos

Author

Marcos Wasilew

Author · added in 1.1.0

Max Bachmann

Contributor

Adam Cohen

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Carlos Amorin

no longer listed · 1.1.0

Releases (3)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-08-31 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
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2026-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 61 exports
damerau_levenshtein_distance, damerau_levenshtein_normalized_distance, damerau_levenshtein_normalized_similarity, damerau_levenshtein_similarity, editops_apply_str, editops_apply_vec, extract_best_match, extract_matches, extract_similar_strings, fuzz_QRatio, fuzz_WRatio, fuzz_partial_ratio, fuzz_partial_token_ratio, fuzz_partial_token_set_ratio, fuzz_partial_token_sort_ratio, fuzz_ratio, fuzz_token_ratio, fuzz_token_set_ratio, fuzz_token_sort_ratio, get_editops, hamming_distance, hamming_normalized_distance, hamming_normalized_similarity, hamming_similarity, indel_distance, indel_normalized_distance, indel_normalized_similarity, indel_similarity, jaro_distance, jaro_normalized_distance and 31 more
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0
record
2024-12-05
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-05
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 359 KB

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citation("RapidFuzz")

Format

Leite, A., Amorim, C., Bachmann, M., Bezerra, D., Cohen, A., Vaconcelos, H., & Wasilew, M. (2026). RapidFuzz: String Similarity Computation Using 'RapidFuzz' (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RapidFuzz

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RapidFuzz version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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