Returns a vector of most similar string in another vector. Returns a vector of the same length as input vector '.s'.
Usage
find_most_similar_string(
.s,
.t,
max_dist = Inf,
verbose = TRUE,
ignore_case = TRUE,
feeling_lucky = FALSE,
...
)Arguments
- .s
a character vector to be matched.
- .t
a character vector to be matched against.
- max_dist
the maximum string distance
- verbose
should warnings be printed in the console.
- ignore_case
should case be ignored? Default is TRUE.
- feeling_lucky
if multiple most similar strings are found. Should the first one be returned?
- ...
other arguments passed to utils::adist.
Details
Uses the generalized Levenshtein distance. For more information type ?utils::adist in the console. the original source is https://github.com/davidsjoberg/similiars/blob/master/R/similiars.R