Text Alignment with Smith-Waterman R package text.alignment version 0.1.5 Find similarities between texts using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. The algorithm performs local sequence alignment and determines similar regions between two strings. The Smith-Waterman algorithm is explained in the paper: "Identification of common molecular subsequences" by T.F.Smith and M.S.Waterman (1981), available at <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5>. This package implements the same logic for sequences of words and letters instead of molecular sequences. Software Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.11.5) LinkingTo: Rcpp Suggests: knitr, markdown, rmarkdown Jan Wijffels <jwijffels@bnosac.be> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Jan Wijffels [aut, cre, cph] (Rewrite of functionalities from the textreuse R package), Vrije Universiteit Brussel - DIGI: Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities [cph], Lincoln Mullen [ctb, cph] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=text.alignment/LICENSE) 2025-11-27 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=text.alignment doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.text.alignment