stringdist
swMATH34013CRANstringdistMaRDI QIDQ45722
Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String Distance Functions
Last update: 28 November 2023
Software version identifier: 0.9.10, 0.4-0, 0.4-2, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.7.0, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4.1, 0.9.4.2, 0.9.4.4, 0.9.4.5, 0.9.4.6, 0.9.4.7, 0.9.4, 0.9.5.0, 0.9.5.1, 0.9.5.2, 0.9.5.3, 0.9.5.5, 0.9.6.3, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.12
Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/stringdist
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Implements an approximate string matching version of R's native 'match' function. Also offers fuzzy text search based on various string distance measures. 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. Reference: MPJ van der Loo (2014) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-011>.
