Function to find Max value using stringdist R

Asked Feb 02 '17 at 13:36

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I'm trying to write a function that finds the Max value for each row of a column using stringdist.

I have a line of code like this to find the max value of the 1st row but need help getting every row.

library(stringdist)
max(stringdist(table1$column1[1], table2$column1, method = 'jaccard'))

How would I write a function that finds the max value of every row in Column1?

edited Feb 02 '17 at 13:37

Sotos

asked Feb 02 '17 at 13:36

jjm25

try `sapply(table1$column1, function(i) max(stringdist(i, table2$column1, method = 'jaccard')))` – Sotos Feb 02 '17 at 13:42
that works perfectly, thanks – jjm25 Feb 03 '17 at 20:07

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