Package: fuzzylink 0.4.2

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>.

Authors:Joe Ornstein [aut, cre, cph]

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NEWS

# Install 'fuzzylink' in R:

install.packages('fuzzylink', repos = c('https://joeornstein.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/joeornstein/fuzzylink/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://joeornstein.github.io

On CRAN:

5.80 score 18 stars 22 scripts 170 downloads 8 exports 45 dependencies

Last updated from:1cec92e40b. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	144
source / vignettes	OK	185
linux-release-x86_64	OK	116
macos-release-arm64	OK	115
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	134
windows-devel	OK	81
windows-release	OK	74
windows-oldrel	OK	77
wasm-release	OK	105

Exports:anthropic_api_key check_match dot fuzzylink get_embeddings get_similarity_matrix mistral_api_key openai_api_key

Dependencies:askpass cli coro curl dplyr ellmer fastmap generics glue httr httr2 jsonlite later lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix mime openssl otel pillar pkgconfig plyr promises R6 ranger rappdirs Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen RcppParallel reshape2 Rfast rlang S7 stringdist stringi stringr sys tibble tidyselect utf8 vctrs withr zigg

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Install an ANTHROPIC API KEY in Your '.Renviron' File for Repeated Use	anthropic_api_key
Test whether two strings match with an LLM prompt.	check_match
Compute the dot product between two vectors	dot
Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings	fuzzylink
Get pretrained text embeddings	get_embeddings
Create matrix of embedding similarities	get_similarity_matrix
Install a MISTRAL API KEY in Your '.Renviron' File for Repeated Use	mistral_api_key
Install an OPENAI API KEY in Your '.Renviron' File for Repeated Use	openai_api_key