Re: [datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Hi Ram In addition to the helpful suggestions made above, here are some R-specific pointers: — stringr is an extremely helpful package with which to do most of the string manipulation actions (whitespace removal, tokenisation, regex matching) recommended above. — you may also need a package

Re: [datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Hi Ram, Faced with similar issues, the following worked for me - 1. Make everything lower or upper case using tolower/ toupper 2. Grep to match the common pattern of name Best, Sudatta > On Aug 25, 2020, at 7:52 AM, Rahul Gupta wrote: > > Hi Ram, > > Not sure if there is something very

Re: [datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Hi Ram, For one project I had to match a village name in one dataset with another dataset containing ~44000 villages in Maharashtra. I had faced a similar situation. To find exact(or closest) match I had used following tricks from both strings to be compared: 1. remove white spaces 2.

Re: [datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Hi Ram, Not sure if there is something very similar to FuzzyWuzzy (Python) in R. But you can try this link https://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/agrep.html It is similar kind of approximate string matching. You can set your own threshold criteria and filter data accordingly. On

Re: [datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Not sure what is the equivalent of python difflib (SequenceMatcher) in R. If you have one, it will work. Sent from a handheld device. Pardon the brevity and typos. On Aug 25, 2020, 20:09 +0530, rammano...@gmail.com , wrote: > Hi, > > I have collected hospital data from multiple sources.

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[datameet] Help with R logic - near similar name

Hi, I have collected hospital data from multiple sources. However, each source have different name. Trying to clean list with no duplicates. I am using R and couldn't resolve with stringdist_join . Appreciate you suggesting some approach. For example, Guntur (A.P) is listed with following

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