tidy_stringdist: Tidy stringdist calculation

In tidystringdist: String Distance Calculation with Tidy Data Principles

Tidy stringdist calculation

Description

Tidy stringdist calculation

Usage

tidy_stringdist(
  df,
  v1 = V1,
  v2 = V2,
  method = c("osa", "lv", "dl", "hamming", "lcs", "qgram", "cosine", "jaccard", "jw",
    "soundex"),
  ...
)

Arguments

df	a dataframe containing the strings to compare
v1	the name of the first columns
v2	the name of the second columns
method	one of the methods implemented in the stringdist package — "osa", "lv", "dl", "hamming", "lcs", "qgram", "cosine", "jaccard", "jw", "soundex". See stringdist-metrics
...	other parameters passed to stringdist

Value

a tibble with string distance

Examples

proust <- tidy_comb_all(c("Albertine", "Françoise", "Gilberte", "Odette", "Charles"))
tidy_stringdist(proust)

tidystringdist documentation built on May 5, 2026, 1:07 a.m.