match_maker: Fuzzy Text Matching: element

In aedobbyn/dobtools: dobtools

Description

Find the best match (or no match at all) to string inputs.

Usage

match_maker(e, matches, max_dist = 5)

Arguments

e	An character
matches	A vector in which to look for matches with e.
max_dist	Set maxDist to be used in stringdist::amatch

Examples

iris <- iris %>% tibble::as_tibble()
iris %>% dplyr::mutate(
  foo = purrr::map_chr(as.character(Species), match_maker,
                matches = c("Virginia", "California", "Sarasota"))
  )

iris %>% dplyr::mutate(
  foo = purrr::map_chr(as.character(Species), match_maker,
                matches = c("Virginia", "California", "Sarasota"), max_dist = 20)
)

aedobbyn/dobtools documentation built on May 28, 2019, 2:33 a.m.