Package: stringdist
Maintainer: Mark van der Loo <mark.vanderloo@gmail.com>
License: GPL-3
Title: Approximate String Matching and String Distance Functions
LazyData: no
Type: Package
LazyLoad: yes
Authors@R: c( person("Mark", "van der Loo", role=c("aut","cre"),email="mark.vanderloo@gmail.com")
            , person("Jan", "van der Laan", role="ctb"))
Description: Implements an approximate string matching version of R's native 'match' function. Can calculate various string distances based on edits (damerau-levenshtein, hamming, levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q-gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (jaro, jaro-winkler). An implementation of soundex is provided as well.
Version: 0.8.2
Depends: R (>= 2.15.3)
Imports: parallel
URL: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist
Date: 2013-04-28
Suggests: testthat
Packaged: 2014-12-15 20:02:01 UTC; mark
Author: Mark van der Loo [aut, cre],
  Jan van der Laan [ctb]
NeedsCompilation: yes
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-12-16 00:44:06
