str_dist

This function wraps around <code>stringdist::stringdist()</code>.

Explore and normalize American campaign finance
data. Created by the Investigative Reporting Workshop to facilitate
work on The Accountability Project, an effort to collect public data
into a central, standard database that is more easily searched:
<https://publicaccountability.org/>.

Kiernan Nicholls

campfin

Wrangle Campaign Finance Data

Investigative Reporting Workshop 

Yanqi Xu

Schuyler Erle

str_dist function

<dl><dt>a</dt>
<dd><code>R</code> object (target); will be converted by <code><a href="/link/base%3A%3Aas.character()?package=campfin&version=1.0.11" data-mini-rdoc="campfin::base::as.character()">base::as.character()</a></code>.</dd>
<dt>b</dt>
<dd><code>R</code> object (source); will be converted by <code><a href="/link/base%3A%3Aas.character()?package=campfin&version=1.0.11" data-mini-rdoc="campfin::base::as.character()">base::as.character()</a></code>.</dd>
<dt>method</dt>
<dd>Method for distance calculation. The default is "osa."</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Other arguments passed to <code>stringdist::stringdist()</code>.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Calculate string distance — str_dist

<dl>

<dt>a</dt>
<dd><code>R</code> object (target); will be converted by <code><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/character.html'>base::as.character()</a></code>.</dd>


<dt>b</dt>
<dd><code>R</code> object (source); will be converted by <code><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/character.html'>base::as.character()</a></code>.</dd>


<dt>method</dt>
<dd>Method for distance calculation. The default is "osa."</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>Other arguments passed to <code>stringdist::stringdist()</code>.</dd>

</dl>

str_dist: Calculate string distance

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