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Package: stringdist
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Maintainer: Mark van der Loo <mark.vanderloo@gmail.com>
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License: GPL-3
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Title: Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions
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Title: Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String Distance Functions
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LazyData: no
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Type: Package
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LazyLoad: yes
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, person("Chris","Muir" , role="ctb")
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, person("Johannes", "Gruber" , role="ctb"))
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Description: Implements an approximate string matching version of R's native
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'match' function. Can calculate various string distances based on edits
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'match' function. Also offers fuzzy text search based on various string
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distance measures. Can calculate various string distances based on edits
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(Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q-
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gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (Jaro, Jaro-Winkler). An
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implementation of soundex is provided as well. Distances can be computed between

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