Sorry for joining late, but I wanted to see if my search page could help. (I don't know which search archive you looked at.) I entered fuzzy string match* and got a few things that look relevant, including the agrep function.
As for the second part of the question, that seems to be a coding problem that is dependent on the current form of your data. Write me off the list and I'll send you an R script I use for similar things (making PayPal payments). Jon Dear list, I spent about two hours searching on the message archive, with no avail. I have a list of people that have to pass an on-line test, but only a fraction of them do it. Moreover, as they input their names, the resulting string do not always match the names I have in my database. I would like to do two things: 1. Match any strings that are 90% the same Example: name1 <- "Harry Harrington" name2 <- "Harry Harington" I need a function that would declare those strings as a match (ideally having an argument that would allow introducing 80% instead of 90%) -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
