[R] Compare String Similarity

[Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohl]

you should also look at Bioconductor Package Biostrings
hth
Matthias

Am 19.04.2012 18:01, schrieb 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.
>>
>> -- Bert
>>
>> 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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