Is there a packagein R that contain Levenshtein Distance counting function that compute the distance for numeric vectors? All I have found are strings based. Also I am looking for a Jaro-Winkler package that do the same, but the Levenshtein distance is more essensial.
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2Have you tried `sos::???levenshtein` ? – Carl Witthoft Jul 15 '13 at 14:55
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@CarlWitthoft There is no levenshtein function in sos package – POD Jul 15 '13 at 15:01
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@JackRyan how can I do that? I just found the simple strcmp() – POD Jul 15 '13 at 15:18
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1POD, when text has a grey highlighter, it means it's a piece of code. In this case: 1) Load the package "sos" . 2) type exactly this: "???levenshtein" 3) take a gander at the search results. – Carl Witthoft Jul 15 '13 at 17:14
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@CarlWitthoft I thought that you don't know the whole function. I will try that. – POD Jul 15 '13 at 23:04
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Found this page: Clustering strings in R (is it possible?)
which suggests using the vwr package.
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I got the (vmr) from R CRAN archive. Is there a reason that is discontinued? – POD Jul 15 '13 at 23:09