stringdist (version 0.9.0)

stringdist-package: A package for string distance calculation and approximate string matching.

Description

A package for string distance calculation and approximate string matching.

Introduction

The stringdist package offers fast and platform-independent string metrics. It's main purpose is to compute various string distances and to do approximate text matching between character vectors. Besides documentation for each function, the main topics documented are:

• stringdist-metrics-- string metrics supported by the package

stringdist-encoding -- how encoding is handled by the package stringdist-parallelization -- on multithreading

Acknowledgements

• The code for the full Damerau-Levenshtein distance was adapted from Nick Logan'shttps://github.com/ugexe/Text--Levenshtein--Damerau--XS/blob/master/damerau-int.c{public github repository}.

C code for converting UTF-8 to integer was copied from the R core for performance reasons. The code for soundex conversion was kindly contributed by Jan van der Laan.

Citation

If you would like to cite this package, please cite the http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2014-1/loo.pdf{R Journal Paper}:

• M.P.J. van der Loo (2014). Thestringdistpackage for approximate string matching. R Journal 6(1) pp 111-122

code

citation('stringdist')