edlibR: R Integration for Edlib, the C/C++ Library for Exact Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Edit (Levenshtein) Distance

Bindings to edlib, a lightweight performant C/C++ library for exact pairwise sequence alignment using edit distance (Levenshtein distance). The algorithm computes the optimal alignment path, but also can be used to find only the start and/or end of the alignment path for convenience. Edlib was designed to be ultrafast and require little memory, with the capability to handle very large sequences. Three alignment methods are supported: global (Needleman-Wunsch), infix (Hybrid Wunsch), and prefix (Semi-Hybrid Wunsch). The original C/C++ library is described in "Edlib: a C/C++ library for fast, exact sequence alignment using edit distance", M. Šošić, M. Šikić, <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw753>.

Version:	1.0.2
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	Rcpp (≥ 1.0.5), stringr (≥ 1.4.0)
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.1.0), rmarkdown, knitr
Published:	2024-02-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.edlibR
Author:	Martin Šošić [aut], Evan Biederstedt [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Evan Biederstedt <evan.biederstedt at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/evanbiederstedt/edlibR/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/evanbiederstedt/edlibR
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	edlibR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	edlibR.pdf
Vignettes:	"EdlibR: R interface to edlib"

Downloads:

Package source:	edlibR_1.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: edlibR_1.0.2.zip, r-release: edlibR_1.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: edlibR_1.0.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): edlibR_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): edlibR_1.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): edlibR_1.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): edlibR_1.0.2.tgz
Old sources:	edlibR archive

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