NEWS

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blocking 1.0.3

• Fixed errors in the evaluation functions.

blocking 1.0.2 (2026-03-11)

• Updated est_block_error function.

blocking 1.0.1 (2025-06-18)

• Fixed CRAN errors.
• Awesome Official Statistics badge added.
• Removed unnecessary dependency on the RcppAlgos package.

blocking 1.0.0 (2025-06-13)

• Added support for word embeddings.
• Updated controls for the ANN algorithms.
• Updated evaluation metrics.
• Added 4 data sets.
• Added 2 new vignettes.
• Added estimators for FPR and FNR due to blocking in record linkage, as proposed by Dasylva and Goussanou (2021).
• Updated examples and documentation.

blocking 0.1.0

• Supports the following packages: RcppHNSW, mlpack and RcppAnnoy.
• Supports blocking for deduplication and record linkage.
• Metrics when true blocking is known based on igraph::compare.
• Testing with the tinytest package.
• Initial support for the reclin2 package.
• Class blocking introduced.
• S3method for printing.
• First vignette added.
• Evaluation with standard metrics (recall, fpr, etc.) added, works with vector for deduplication.
• Added saving index for hnsw and annoy.
• rnndescend support added.