R Integration for Edlib, the C/C++ Library for Exact Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Edit (Levenshtein) Distance R package edlibR version 1.0.3 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>. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.5), stringr (>= 1.4.0) LinkingTo: Rcpp Suggests: testthat (>= 3.1.0), rmarkdown, knitr Evan Biederstedt <evan.biederstedt@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Martin Šošić [aut], Travers Ching [ctb], Evan Biederstedt [aut, cre] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=edlibR/LICENSE) 2025-07-20 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=edlibR doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.edlibR