In trying to merge some data, I was confronted with a problem of matching up strings where the author had mutilated them. He had done so in two ways: cutting them off at the 8th character or using personal abbreviations. The first one is relatively easy to deal with. The second one is not.
Approximate string matching in R
Approximate string matching in R
Approximate string matching in R
In trying to merge some data, I was confronted with a problem of matching up strings where the author had mutilated them. He had done so in two ways: cutting them off at the 8th character or using personal abbreviations. The first one is relatively easy to deal with. The second one is not.