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:	0.3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	stats, utils, dplyr, Rfast, reshape2, stringdist, stringr, httr, jsonlite, httr2 (≥ 1.2.1), ranger, ellmer (≥ 0.4.0)
Published:	2026-01-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.fuzzylink
Author:	Joe Ornstein [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

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Package source:	fuzzylink_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: fuzzylink_0.3.0.zip, r-release: fuzzylink_0.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: fuzzylink_0.3.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): fuzzylink_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fuzzylink_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fuzzylink_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fuzzylink_0.3.0.tgz
Old sources:	fuzzylink archive

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