Package: lingdist
Type: Package
Title: Fast Linguistic Distance and Alignment Computation
Authors@R: 
    c(person(given = "Chao",
             family = "Kong",
             role = c("aut", "cre"),
             email = "kongchao1998@gmail.com",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6404-6142")))
Version: 2.4.0
Date: 2026-3-8
Description: A fast linguistic distance and alignment computation
        package. It implements generalized edit distance, Pointwise
        Mutual Information (PMI) distance, and Weighted Jaccard
        Distance (WJD). For generalized edit distance, the package
        allows users to define custom cost for every symbol's
        insertion, deletion, and substitution, and supports treating
        character combinations as single symbols (e.g., IPA with
        diacritics). It also provides detailed alignment information.
        PMI distance automatically learns costs from data. WJD is
        suitable for hierarchical categorical data with multiple forms.
        All functions are implemented in 'C++' and distance matrix
        computation is parallelized leveraging the 'RcppThread'
        package.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.1.0), RcppThread (>= 2.3.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppThread
URL: https://github.com/fncokg/lingdist
BugReports: https://github.com/fncokg/lingdist/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Repository: https://fncokg.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-08-19 12:59:47 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/fncokg/lingdist
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: c05ebc90001c8597b51fa546dd0c31cd5c7ddfe9
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-10-18 08:43:57 UTC; root
Author: Chao Kong [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6404-6142>)
Maintainer: Chao Kong <kongchao1998@gmail.com>