multilink

0.1.1

Multifile Record Linkage and Duplicate Detection

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2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Serge Aleshin-GuendelFirst published 2023-01-232 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implementation of the methodology of Aleshin-Guendel & Sadinle (2022) doi:10.1080/01621459.2021.2013242. It handles the general problem of multifile record linkage and duplicate detection, where any number of files are to be linked, and any of the files may have duplicates.

Install

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

install.packages("multilink", 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("aleshing/multilink")

Development version from aleshing/multilink. 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-multilink

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-multilink

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,405 · ~6/day · ~183/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ aleshing/multilink

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54Commits

1Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 54 commits · Last activity 2023-07-05

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/aleshing/multilink on 2026-07-19.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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 >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

igraph RecordLinkage Rcpputilsmcclust geosphere stringr

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Serge Aleshin-Guendel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Serge Aleshin-Guendel

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1Latest
2023-06-09 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-09
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-02-07
issues were not corrected in time
0.1.0
2023-01-23
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-23
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 144 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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