[R] merge on non-identical names

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

See agrep:

agrep("American Services", "Americam Services")


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, j daniel <jdlecy at maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I need to conduct a merge on two databases containing information on
> organizations, but the organization names are often non-identical and there
> is no common unique identifier.  Does anyone know a good way to calculate a
> similarity measure on two names, or even better is there a natural language
> matching function in an R package?  I did some searches on this but must not
> know the right keywords to search.
>
> As an example, here are some possible non-identical names:
>
> Oxfam,  Oxfam USA
> American Services, Americam Services   -  (just mis-spelled)
> Global Alliance for Action, Global Alliance for the Environment   -  (a
> non-match)
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
>
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