R/string_.R

In synthesisr: Import, Assemble, and Deduplicate Bibliographic Datasets

#' Calculate similarity between two strings
#' @description These functions each access a specific \code{"methods"} argument provided by \code{stringdist}, and are provided for convenient calling by \code{\link{find_duplicates}}. They do not include any new functionality beyond that given by \code{stringdist}, which you should use for your own analyses.
#' @param a A character vector of items to match to b.
#' @param b A character vector of items to match to a.
#' @return Returns a score of same length as b, giving the dissimilarity between a and b.
#' @name string_
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