Package 'similiars'

case_when_skeleton

Description

Returns a case_when from dplyr to replace .s with .r. You can copy the output and put in the script to avoid manual work.

Usage

case_when_skeleton(.s, .r, var_name = NULL)

Arguments

.s	a character vector to be replaced.
.r	a character vector to replace with.
var_name	Optional. the name of the variable that should be replaced. If NULL or not changed the call of '.s' is used.

Value

console output with a case_when skeleton

Examples

case_when_skeleton(letters[1:10],
                   LETTERS[1:10],
                   var_name = "my_letters")

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find_most_similar_string

Description

Returns a vector of most similar string in another vector. Returns a vector of the same length as input vector '.s'.

Usage

find_most_similar_string(
  .s,
  .t,
  max_dist = Inf,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ignore_case = TRUE,
  feeling_lucky = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

.s	a character vector to be matched.
.t	a character vector to be matched against.
max_dist	the maximum string distance
verbose	should warnings be printed in the console.
ignore_case	should case be ignored? Default is TRUE.
feeling_lucky	if multiple most similar strings are found. Should the first one be returned?
...	other arguments passed to utils::adist.

Details

Uses the generalized Levenshtein distance. For more information type ?utils::adist in the console.

Value

a character vector

Examples

find_most_similar_string(c("battman", "Irn Man"), superheroes)

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find_string_distance

Description

Returns a list of dataframes arranged by most similar strings.

Usage

find_string_distance(.s, .t, ignore_case = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

.s	a character vector to be matched.
.t	a character vector to be matchad against.
ignore_case	should case be ignored? Default is TRUE.
...	other arguments passed to utils::adist.

Details

Uses the generalized Levenshtein distance. For more information type ?utils::adist in the console.

Value

a list of dataframes

Examples

find_string_distance("battman", superheroes)

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Famous super heroes

Description

A character vector with 46 super heroes

Usage

superheroes

Format

A character vector with 46 super heroes:

Source

https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-superheroes-2024795

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