CRAN: Package fuzzylink

fuzzylink: Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings

Links datasets through fuzzy string matching using pretrained text embeddings. Produces more accurate record linkage when lexical string distance metrics are a poor guide to match quality (e.g., "Patricia" is more lexically similar to "Patrick" than it is to "Trish"). Capable of performing multilingual record linkage. Methods are described in Ornstein (2025) <doi:10.1017/pan.2025.10016>.

Version: 0.2.5

Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)

Imports: stats, utils, dplyr, Rfast, reshape2, stringdist, stringr, httr, jsonlite, httr2, ranger

Published: 2025年08月29日

DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fuzzylink

Author: Joe Ornstein ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]

Maintainer: Joe Ornstein <jornstein at uga.edu>

BugReports: https://github.com/joeornstein/fuzzylink/issues

License: MIT + file LICENSE

URL: https://github.com/joeornstein/fuzzylink

NeedsCompilation: no

Materials: README, NEWS

CRAN checks: fuzzylink results

Documentation:

Reference manual: fuzzylink.html , fuzzylink.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: fuzzylink_0.2.5.tar.gz

Windows binaries: r-devel: fuzzylink_0.2.5.zip, r-release: fuzzylink_0.2.5.zip, r-oldrel: fuzzylink_0.2.5.zip

macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): fuzzylink_0.2.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fuzzylink_0.2.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fuzzylink_0.2.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fuzzylink_0.2.5.tgz

Old sources: fuzzylink archive

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