Package: starling
Title: Record Linkage for Public Health Surveillance
Version: 1.1.0
Description: Record linkage for public health surveillance datasets
        using either the Fellegi-Sunter probabilistic framework (via
        reclin2) or deterministic exact-key matching. Provides
        pre-linkage data quality auditing (preflight()), Medicare
        number checksum validation (check_medicare()), blocking
        variable construction (flock()), and the murmuration() linkage
        engine. murmuration() expresses linkage as a single
        cohort-to-event concept (linking a linelist of people to a
        dated stream of vaccination, hospitalisation, or case events
        within a before/during/after time window), with the historical
        four-code taxonomy (case-to-hospitalisation,
        vaccination-to-case, vaccination-to-hospitalisation,
        vaccination-to-event) retained as deprecated aliases. Also
        provides linkage weight distribution visualisation
        (murmuration_plot()) and threshold sensitivity analysis
        (perch()) with annotated AIHW, WA Data Linkage Unit, and PHRN
        reference benchmarks. perch() can be called standalone or
        triggered automatically mid-linkage via
        murmuration(perch_before_linking = TRUE). Includes synthetic
        datasets (cases_notifiable, vax_air) and three vignettes
        demonstrating the complete linkage workflow. Part of the aviary
        public health surveillance ecosystem.
Authors@R: person("Nicolas", "Smoll", email = "nicolas.smoll@health.qld.gov.au",
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6923-9701"))
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1)
Imports: reclin2, dplyr, stringr, lubridate, rlang, ggplot2
Suggests: patchwork, plotly, phonics, mudnester, testthat (>= 3.0.0),
        knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://github.com/nrsmoll/starling
BugReports: https://github.com/nrsmoll/starling/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev
Repository: https://nrsmoll.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-13 03:01:18 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/nrsmoll/starling
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: e2fd02791b2cc110c3cfd88993571ccb852aeea1
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-13 05:11:03 UTC; root
Author: Nicolas Smoll [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-9701>)
Maintainer: Nicolas Smoll <nicolas.smoll@health.qld.gov.au>