MatchStrings: Check for mismatch between character vectors

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Check for mismatch between character vectors

Description

Checks that entries in one character vector occur in another, suggesting corrections for mismatched elements.

Usage

MatchStrings(x, table, Fail = stop, max.distance = 0.5, ...)

Arguments

x, table	Character vectors, in which all elements of x are expected to occur in table.
Fail	Function to call if a mismatch is found.
max.distance, ...	Arguments to agrep(), used to propose possible matches to the user.

Value

MatchStrings() returns the elements of x that occur in table.

Author(s)

Martin R. Smith ([e-mail])

See Also

Other string parsing functions: EndSentence(), MorphoBankDecode(), RightmostCharacter(), Unquote()

Examples

tree <- BalancedTree(8)
MatchStrings(c("t1", "tip2", "t3"), TipLabels(tree), Fail = message)

TreeTools documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:18 p.m.