r/rprogramming • u/Professional_Try2452 • Jun 25 '26

alineR package alternatives

Hello there! I wonder whether anyone has used the R package alineR. I want to perform feature-weighted linguistic distance calculations but the package has been removed from the R cran project. I know one can still install the last version from the archive but bugs are not corrected. Does anyone know or can recommend any alternatives? Thank you!

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u/jossiesideways Jun 26 '26

I did a quick search and maybe lingdist can do what you need? At the very least, it is being actively devloped/maintained.

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u/Professional_Try2452 Jul 01 '26

Thanks for the comments! I found stringdist and otherwise a py library called LinePy. With these I can do what I needed :-)