stringdist: Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String Distance Functions

Implements an approximate string matching version of R's native 'match' function. Also offers fuzzy text search based on various string distance measures. Can calculate various string distances based on edits (Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q- gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (Jaro, Jaro-Winkler). An implementation of soundex is provided as well. Distances can be computed between character vectors while taking proper care of encoding or between integer vectors representing generic sequences. This package is built for speed and runs in parallel by using 'openMP'. An API for C or C++ is exposed as well. Reference: MPJ van der Loo (2014) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-011>.

Version:	0.9.14
Depends:	R (≥ 2.15.3)
Imports:	parallel
Suggests:	tinytest
Published:	2024-12-10
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.stringdist
Author:	Mark van der Loo [aut, cre], Jan van der Laan [ctb], R Core Team [ctb], Nick Logan [ctb], Chris Muir [ctb], Johannes Gruber [ctb], Brian Ripley [ctb]
Maintainer:	Mark van der Loo <mark.vanderloo at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist/issues
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Citation:	stringdist citation info
Materials:	README NEWS
In views:	NaturalLanguageProcessing, OfficialStatistics
CRAN checks:	stringdist results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	stringdist.pdf
Vignettes:	RJournal 6 111-122 (2014) (source) stringdist C/C++ API (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	stringdist_0.9.14.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: stringdist_0.9.14.zip, r-release: stringdist_0.9.12.zip, r-oldrel: stringdist_0.9.14.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): stringdist_0.9.14.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): stringdist_0.9.14.tgz, r-release (x86_64): stringdist_0.9.14.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): stringdist_0.9.14.tgz
Old sources:	stringdist archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	AurieLSHGaussian, blink, diathor, VDJgermlines
Reverse imports:	APCalign, available, bdc, bdlp, bibliometrix, biblioverlap, BiocCheck, bioseq, CAGEr, campfin, ChromSCape, clickR, ClustIRR, clustringr, ColOpenData, cols4all, concatipede, Conigrave, countries, CTDquerier, daqapo, deductive, DeepPINCS, discoverableresearch, dupree, exams.forge, fastLink, fctutils, fcuk, fedmatch, flora, fossilbrush, fuzzyjoin, genBaRcode, geneHapR, GeneStructureTools, gerda, GetLattesData, immunarch, immuneSIM, JANE, KOR.addrlink, labourR, levitate, LexisNexisTools, lingtypology, LinTInd, longreadvqs, LymphoSeq, MEDseq, messy.cats, mmstat4, occupationMeasurement, ogrdbstats, ontophylo, openPrimeR, palaeoverse, PGRdup, Platypus, poldis, qdap, r2dii.match, rabi, rassta, rdiversity, reclin2, refinr, RepertoiR, revtools, scRepertoire, scruff, SemNetCleaner, SentimentAnalysis, synthesisr, taxlist, ThomasJeffersonUniv, tidystringdist, tripr, ulex, utilsIPEA, vDiveR
Reverse linking to:	refinr
Reverse suggests:	embed, epiCleanr, GenProSeq, googleLanguageR, lavaanExtra, LSTbook, rlist, RPatternJoin, seqtrie, sjmisc, WorldFlora, zoomerjoin

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stringdist to link to this page.