stringdist (version 0.9.5.0)
Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions
Description
Implements an approximate string matching version of R's native
'match' function. Can calculate various string distances based on edits
(Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q-
gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (Jaro, Jaro-Winkler). An
implementation of soundex is provided as well. Distances can be computed between
character vectors while taking proper care of encoding or between integer
vectors representing generic sequences. Stringdist is built for speed and
paralellizes computation using 'openMP'. An API for C or C++ is exposed as well.