# stringdist v0.9.5.2

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## Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions

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. This package is built for speed and runs in parallel by using 'openMP'. An API for C or C++ is exposed as well.

## Functions in stringdist

 Name Description seq_amatch Approximate matching for integer sequences. stringdist_api Calling stringdist from C or C++ seq_sim Compute similarity scores between sequences of integers printable_ascii Detect the presence of non-printable or non-ascii characters phonetic Phonetic algorithms seq_dist Compute distance metrics between integer sequences stringdist-encoding String metrics in stringdist seq_qgrams Get a table of qgram counts for integer sequences amatch Approximate string matching qgrams Get a table of qgram counts from one or more character vectors. stringdist-parallelization Multithreading and parallelization in stringdist stringsim Compute similarity scores between strings stringdist Compute distance metrics between strings stringdist-package A package for string distance calculation and approximate string matching. stringdist-metrics String metrics in stringdist No Results!