metaphonebr

0.0.5

Custom 'MetaphoneBR' Phonetic Encoding for Brazilian Names

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2.1Kdownloads / year

83.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rodrigo BorgesFirst published 2025-07-172 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simplifies Brazilian names phonetically using a custom 'metaphoneBR' algorithm that preserves ending vowels. Useful for name matching processing preserving gender information carried generally by ending vowels in Portuguese. Mation (2025) doi:10.6082/uchicago.15104.

Install

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

install.packages("metaphonebr", 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("ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr")

Development version from ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr. 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-metaphonebr

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

# 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-metaphonebr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

83.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 686 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,037 · ~6/day · ~174/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr

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1Releases

32Commits

2Contributors

32 commits · Last activity 2025-09-18

Releases over time

2025-07-14 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (2)

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Suggests (1)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Rodrigo Borges

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Rodrigo Borges

Author, Maintainer

Lucas Mation

Author

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research

Funders (1)

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Pedro Cavalcanti G. Ferreira

no longer listed · 0.0.4

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.5Latest
2025-09-18 · current release · diff ↗
0.0.4
2025-07-17
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-17
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 19 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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