Package: phonics 1.4.0

James Howard

phonics: Phonetic Spelling Algorithms

Provides a collection of phonetic algorithms including Soundex, Metaphone, NYSIIS, Caverphone, and others. The package is documented in <doi:10.18637/jss.v095.i08>.

Authors:James Howard [aut, cre], Kyle Haynes [ctb], Amanda Hood [ctb], Os Keyes [ctb]

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# Install 'phonics' in R:

install.packages('phonics', repos = c('https://k3jph.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/k3jph/phonics-in-r/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://phonics.jameshoward.us

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

On CRAN:

bsd-2-license linguistics metaphone nysiis phonetic-spelling-algorithms phonics record-linkage soundex text-processing cpp

7.64 score 35 stars 3 packages 69 scripts 806 downloads 14 exports 2 dependencies

Last updated from:566f3f5d3b. Checks:15 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	100
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	118
source / vignettes	OK	207
linux-release-arm64	OK	79
linux-release-x86_64	OK	160
macos-release-arm64	OK	112
macos-release-x86_64	OK	222
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	111
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	226
windows-devel-arm64	OK	211
windows-devel-x86_64	OK	158
windows-release-arm64	OK	198
windows-release-x86_64	OK	116
windows-oldrel-x86_64	OK	160
wasm-release	OK	96

Exports:caverphone cologne lein metaphone mra_compare mra_encode nysiis onca phonex phonics refinedSoundex rogerroot soundex statcan

Dependencies:data.table Rcpp

Overview of the phonics Package

Basic Usage | Input and output contracts | Match Rating Approach | Summary

Rendered fromphonics.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-08-11
Started: 2017-11-15

Citation

Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Caverphone	caverphone
Cologne Phonetic Name Coding	cologne
Lein Name Coding	lein
Generate phonetic versions of strings with Metaphone	metaphone
Match Rating Approach Encoder	mra_compare mra_encode
New York State Identification and Intelligence System	nysiis
Oxford Name Compression Algorithm	onca
Phonex Name Coding	phonex
Phonetic Spelling Algorithms	phonics
Roger Root Name Coding Procedure	rogerroot
Soundex	refinedSoundex soundex
Statistics Canada Name Coding	statcan