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In selva86/spellcheckr: Correct the Spelling of a Given Word in the English Language

spellcheckr

Corrects the spelling of a given word in English using a modification of Peter Norvig's spell correct algorithm but is enhanced to handle up to three edits. The algorithm tries to find the spelling with maximum probability of intended correction out of all possible candidate corrections derived from the original misspelled word.

How to install?

# Install Dev Version on GitHub
install.packages("devtools")  # installs devtools pkg
devtools::install_github("selva86/spellcheckr")

# Install CRAN version
install.packages("spellcheckr")

Examples

library(spellcheckr)

1. spellcorrect a word

correct("misteke")
#> [1] "mistake"
correct("objet")
#> [1] "object"

2. spellcorrect a collection of words

sapply(c("The", "audiance", "apprecitad", "my", "singyng"), correct)
#> The      audiance    apprecitad            my       singyng 
#> "the"    "audience" "appreciated"          "my"     "singing"

3. spellcorrect a sentence

sent <- c("The audiance apprecitad my singyng")
wrds <- unlist(stringr::str_split(sent, " "))  # `stringr` package is needed for this.
wrds_out <- sapply(wrds, correct)
paste(wrds_out, collapse=" ")
#> [1] "the audience appreciated my singing"

selva86/spellcheckr documentation built on May 29, 2019, 5:55 p.m.