A fast generalized edit distance and string alignment computation mainly for linguistic aims. As a generalization to the classic edit distance algorithms, the package allows users to define custom cost for every symbol's insertion, deletion, and substitution. The package also allows character combinations in any length to be seen as a single symbol which is very useful for International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions with diacritics. In addition to edit distance result, users can get detailed alignment information such as all possible alignment scenarios between two strings which is useful for testing, illustration or any further usage. Either the distance matrix or its long table form can be obtained and tools to do such conversions are provided. All functions in the package are implemented in 'C++' and the distance matrix computation is parallelized leveraging the 'RcppThread' package.

Helps to render interlinear glossed linguistic examples in html 
    'rmarkdown' documents and then semi-automatically compiles the list of
    glosses at the end of the document. It also provides a database of linguistic
    glosses.

Measure similarity between texts. Offers a variety of processing
  tools and similarity metrics to facilitate flexible representation of texts and matching.
  Implements forms of Language Style Matching (Ireland & Pennebaker, 2010) <doi:10.1037/a0020386>
  and Latent Semantic Analysis (Landauer & Dumais, 1997) <doi:10.1037/0033-295X.104.2.211>.

Provides R with the Glottolog database <https://glottolog.org/> and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic mapping. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project <https://clld.org/>, which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages <https://docs.ropensci.org/lingtypology/> and package vignette. Maps created by this package can be used both for the investigation and linguistic teaching. In addition, package provides an ability to download data from typological databases such as WALS, AUTOTYP and some others and to create your own database website.