| agrep {base} | R Documentation |
Searches for approximate matches to pattern (the first argument)
within the string x (the second argument) using the Levenshtein
edit distance.
agrep(pattern, x, ignore.case = FALSE, value = FALSE,
max.distance = 0.1)
pattern |
a non-empty character string to be matched (not
a regular expression!). Coerced by as.character to a string
if possible. |
x |
character vector where matches are sought. Coerced by
as.character to a character vector if possible. |
ignore.case |
if FALSE, the pattern matching is case
sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored during matching. |
value |
if FALSE, a vector containing the (integer)
indices of the matches determined is returned and if TRUE, a
vector containing the matching elements themselves is returned. |
max.distance |
Maximum distance allowed for a match. Expressed
either as integer, or as a fraction of the pattern length (will be
replaced by the smallest integer not less than the corresponding
fraction), or a list with possible components
all is missing, it is set to 10%, the other components
default to all. The component names can be abbreviated.
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The Levenshtein edit distance is used as measure of approximateness: it is the total number of insertions, deletions and substitutions required to transform one string into another.
The function is a simple interface to the apse library
developed by Jarkko Hietaniemi (also used in the Perl String::Approx
module).
Either a vector giving the indices of the elements that yielded a
match, of, if value is TRUE, the matched elements (after
coercion, preserving names but no other attributes).
David Meyer David.Meyer@wu-wien.ac.at (based on C code by Jarkko Hietaniemi); modifications by Kurt Hornik.
agrep("lasy", "1 lazy 2")
agrep("lasy", "1 lazy 2", max = list(sub = 0))
agrep("laysy", c("1 lazy", "1", "1 LAZY"), max = 2)
agrep("laysy", c("1 lazy", "1", "1 LAZY"), max = 2, value = TRUE)
agrep("laysy", c("1 lazy", "1", "1 LAZY"), max = 2, ignore.case = TRUE)