Package: blocking
Type: Package
Title: Various Blocking Methods for Entity Resolution
Version: 1.0.3
Authors@R: 
  c(person(given = "Maciej",
             family = "Beręsewicz",
             role = c("aut", "cre"),
             email = "maciej.beresewicz@ue.poznan.pl",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8281-4301")),
   person(given = "Adam",
             family = "Struzik",
             role = c("aut", "ctr"),
             email = "adastr5@st.amu.edu.pl"))
Description: The goal of 'blocking' is to provide blocking methods for
        record linkage and deduplication using approximate nearest
        neighbour (ANN) algorithms and graph techniques. It supports
        multiple ANN implementations via 'rnndescent', 'RcppHNSW',
        'RcppAnnoy', and 'mlpack' packages, and provides integration
        with the 'reclin2' package. The package generates shingles from
        character strings and similarity vectors for record comparison,
        and includes evaluation metrics for assessing blocking
        performance including false positive rate (FPR) and false
        negative rate (FNR) estimates. For details see: Papadakis et
        al. (2020) <doi:10.1145/3377455>, Steorts et al. (2014)
        <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_20>, Dasylva and Goussanou
        (2021)
        <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/12-001-X202100200002>,
        Dasylva and Goussanou (2022) <doi:10.1007/s42081-022-00153-3>.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
URL: https://github.com/ncn-foreigners/blocking,
        https://ncn-foreigners.ue.poznan.pl/blocking/
BugReports: https://github.com/ncn-foreigners/blocking/issues
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
Imports: text2vec, tokenizers, RcppHNSW, RcppAnnoy, mlpack, rnndescent,
        igraph, data.table, methods, readr, utils, Matrix
Suggests: tinytest, knitr, rmarkdown, reclin2
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: libglpk-dev libicu-dev libxml2-dev libx11-dev
Repository: https://ncn-foreigners.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-14 07:57:32 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ncn-foreigners/blocking
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 6cfda9bab507d91c5e7a852b321796fde5a1d367
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-14 09:40:55 UTC; root
Author: Maciej Beręsewicz [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8281-4301>),
  Adam Struzik [aut, ctr]
Maintainer: Maciej Beręsewicz <maciej.beresewicz@ue.poznan.pl>