Hello guys,
I am currently trying to do fuzzy matching of two "string" variables (var1 and var2) in my dataset using Levenshtein Distance (-strdist package), which seems to fit my needs.
The only problem that I am having is that I need to calculate the levenshtein distance of each observation in variable 1 with each observation of variable 2, and I am not sure how. As of now, when running strdist var1 var2, i get a pairwise calculation of levenshtein distance between observations in var1 and var2 from the same row. I was wondering if anyone might know how to best implement it?
Best,
Fredrick
I am currently trying to do fuzzy matching of two "string" variables (var1 and var2) in my dataset using Levenshtein Distance (-strdist package), which seems to fit my needs.
The only problem that I am having is that I need to calculate the levenshtein distance of each observation in variable 1 with each observation of variable 2, and I am not sure how. As of now, when running strdist var1 var2, i get a pairwise calculation of levenshtein distance between observations in var1 and var2 from the same row. I was wondering if anyone might know how to best implement it?
Best,
Fredrick
