string_ {synthesisr}

Calculate similarity between two strings

Description

These functions each access a specific "methods" argument provided by stringdist, and are provided for convenient calling by find_duplicates. They do not include any new functionality beyond that given by stringdist, which you should use for your own analyses.

Usage

string_osa(a, b)

string_lv(a, b)

string_dl(a, b)

string_hamming(a, b)

string_lcs(a, b)

string_qgram(a, b)

string_cosine(a, b)

string_jaccard(a, b)

string_jw(a, b)

string_soundex(a, b)

Arguments

a

A character vector of items to match to b.

b

A character vector of items to match to a.

Value

Returns a score of same length as b, giving the dissimilarity between a and b.