select_metric: select_metric

In messy.cats: Employs String Distance Tools to Help Clean Categorical Data

select_metric

Description

Uses heuristic algorithm to suggest a stringdist metric from among hamming, lv, osa, dl, lcs, jw

Usage

select_metric(messy_v, clean_v)

Arguments

messy_v	a messy vector of strings
clean_v	a vector of strings for messy_v to be matched against

Details

for each metric, measures certainty via the difference between the best matches for each word and the average of all matches for each word

Value

a string representing the suggested stringdist metric

See Also

stringdist

Examples

select_metric(c("aapple", "bamana", "clemtidne"), c("apple", "banana", "clementine"))

messy.cats documentation built on Nov. 30, 2022, 5:08 p.m.