Approximate String Matching in R

Question

for my research I have to match two data sets containing fund information. Unfortunately there is no common identifier. The good thing is that I have an identifier in both docum

Answer 1

The RecordLinkage package allows you to match strings with several approaches (e.g. levenshtein but also other measures) and it allows you to define thresholds or even the use of classification model to indicated when an match is ok for you.