Hi all.

This is my first message at R-help...so I'm hoping I have some beginner's
luck and get some good help for my problem!

FYI I have just started using R recently so my knowledge of R is pretty
preliminary.

Okay here is what I need help with - I need to know how to use agrep in a
 for loop.

I need to compare elements of a vector of names with other elements of the
same vector.

However if I use something like this:

for(i in 1:length(test1)-1)
{
  for(j in i+1:length(test1))
  {
  result[[i]][j] <- agrep(test1[i], test1[j], ignore.case = TRUE, value =
TRUE, max.distance = 0.1)
  }

}

I get an error message saying - invalid 'pattern' argument. -* Error in
agrep(test1[i], test1[j], ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE, max.distance =
0.1) : *
*  invalid 'pattern' argument*

Test 1 being - c("Vashi", "Vashi,navi Mumbai", "Thane", "Vashi,new Mumbai",
"Thana", "Surekha", "Thane(w)", "surekhaN")

This is the first time I'm using agrep, I do not understand how it works
fully...

Kindly help...

Thank you.

Su.

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