R Observatory: Metrics for levitate version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

levitate

0.2.2

Fuzzy String Comparison

0packages depend

5.5Kdownloads / year

95.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lewin Appleton-FoxFirst published 2021-05-253 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides string similarity calculations inspired by the Python 'thefuzz' package. Compare strings by edit distance, similarity ratio, best matching substring, ordered token matching and set-based token matching. A range of edit distance measures are available thanks to the 'stringdist' package.

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lewinfox/levitate")

Development version from lewinfox/levitate. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-levitate

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-levitate

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-levitate

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.60

95.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,083 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 55%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,457 · ~15/day · ~461/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15230 days

1.1K90 days

5.5K1 year

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Also on111 r2u16 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ lewinfox/levitate

36Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

130Commits

3Contributors

fuzzy-matchingstring-similarityrdata-matchingsimilarity-measuresthefuzz

License GPL-3.0 · 130 commits · Last activity 2025-09-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-26 · 352026-07-07 · 36

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/lewinfox/levitate on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

rlang stringdist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

glue knitr pkgdown rmarkdown stringi testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Lewin Appleton-Fox

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Lewin Appleton-Fox

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Lewin Appleton-Fox

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.2Latest
2025-09-14 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
2023-10-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
2021-05-25
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-25
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 161 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("levitate")

Format

Appleton-Fox, L. (2025). levitate: Fuzzy String Comparison (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.levitate

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for levitate version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-09. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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