Thank you. Orvalho
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Doran, Harold wrote: > > See the stringMatch function in the MiscPsycho package for an >> implementation of Levenshtein >> > > The agrep function in base R also returns a Levenshtein distance. > > -- > David. > > ______________________________**__________ >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Orvalho Augusto [orvaq...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:08 AM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Pattern names matching >> >> Dear R magic guys.. I have two tables (actually will be dataframes), both >> with names to be matched. >> >> The names on the first dataframe are from a study with antenatal visits on >> some health centers here. It happens that we need the delivery info. And >> half and some thing else of the women decided to delivery some where else >> our health units. We managed to get the names from some other places but >> now >> we have to match our 4000 original names with over 20000 other names. >> >> To make thing more bitter some names have badly written. So I need some >> algorithm like Levenstein or sondex or phonix or something better already >> on >> R. Can you help me? >> >> Orvalho >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.