/**
 * What a reader most likely meant when typing a name: a well-used package first, base R ahead of CRAN, and
 * the things one rarely reaches for last, which are S3 methods, `%operators%` and names starting with a dot.
 *
 * The signature browser and the playground's completion both offer names out of the same database, so they
 * order them with the same {@link rankName}, and what one of them learns the other one knows.
 */
export interface NameRankInput {
    /** the name being offered */
    readonly name: string;
    /** what was typed, empty when nothing was */
    readonly needle: string;
    /** how far down the fuzzy match sits, `0` being the closest; `0` when nothing was typed */
    readonly rank?: number;
    /** how often the owning package was downloaded, `0` when unknown */
    readonly downloads?: number;
    /** the owning package ships with R */
    readonly baseR?: boolean;
    /** the owning package is `base` itself */
    readonly base?: boolean;
    /** flowR carries a definition of its own for the name, so it is one people actually call */
    readonly known?: boolean;
    /** the name is an S3 method, like `print.foo` */
    readonly s3?: boolean;
    /** the name holds a value rather than a function */
    readonly variable?: boolean;
}
/** The points {@link NameRankInput} earns, higher being offered first. */
export declare function rankName(of: NameRankInput): number;