phonetic_distance: Calculate phonetic distance between words

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phonetic_distanceR Documentation

Calculate phonetic distance between words

Description

Uses Soundex codes to measure phonetic similarity.

Usage

phonetic_distance(word1, word2)

Arguments

word1

Character. First word

word2

Character. Second word

Value

Numeric. Distance (0 = identical, higher = more different)

Examples

phonetic_distance("coverage", "covfefe")

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