[R] Compare String Similarity

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Though if you do decide to use Levenstein, it's implemented here in R:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/RecordLinkage/html/strcmp.html

I'm pretty sure this is in C code so it should be mighty fast.

Michael

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> Wrong list.This is R, not statistics (or linguistics?).Please post elsewhere.
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> -- Bert
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Alekseiy Beloshitskiy
> <abeloshitskiy at velti.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I need to estimate the level of similarity of two strings. For example:
>> string1 <- c("depending","audience","research", "school");
>> string2 <- c("audience","push","drama","button","depending");
>>
>> The words in string may occur in different order though. What function would you recommend to use to estimate similarity (e.g., levenstein, distance)?
>>
>> Appreciate for any advices.
>>
>> -Alex
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