Rdym-package: Rdym
In wrathematics/Rdym: A "Did You Mean?" Utility for R

Most search engines have a "did you mean?" feature, where suggestions are given in the presence of likely typos. We are able to somewhat replicate this functionality with ancient spellchecker techniques. When R detects that a function or object listed in the user's input is not found, the package finds the minimum 'Levenshtein' distance between the "'un-found'" token and all symbols in the user's global environment plus all loaded 'namespaces'. The word with minimum 'Levenshtein' distance (in the event of ties, the first such detected) is then suggested as an alternative to the missing symbol. To use, simply load the package from an interactive R session and start making some errors. However, there is an explicit interface for starting and stopping "did you mean?" behavior.

Drew Schmidt and Homer White

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