string_suggestions: Find Strings and Suggest Misspellings

In medExtractR: Extraction of Medication Information from Clinical Text

Find Strings and Suggest Misspellings

Description

This function searches for text within one or more phrases, and looks for partial matches. An exact match of the text should be found in order for a suggestion to made.

Usage

string_suggestions(strings, search_data, max_dist = 2, ignore.case = TRUE)

Arguments

strings	character vector; value(s) to find
search_data	character vector; phrase(s) where values may exist
max_dist	numeric; edit distance to use for partial matches. The default value is 2.
ignore.case	logical; indicates if spelling case matters, defaulting to ‘TRUE’

Value

data.frame with two columns, ‘suggestion’ and ‘match’

Examples

string_suggestions('penicillin', 'penicillan, penicillin, or penicilin?')

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