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stringdist

The package offers the following main functions:

These functions are built upon C-code that re-implements some common (weighted) string distance functions. Distance functions include:

Also, there are some utility functions:

C API

Some of stringdist’s underlying C functions can be called directly from C code in other packages. The description of the API can be found by either typing ?stringdist_api in the R console or open the vignette directly as follows:

vignette("stringdist_C-Cpp_api", package="stringdist")

Examples of packages that link to stringdist can be found here and here.

Resources

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.