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: 0.8.1
Depends: R (>= 2.15.3)
Imports: parallel
URL: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist
Date: 2013-04-28
Suggests: testthat
Packaged: 2014-10-07 08:51:16 UTC; mark
Author: Mark van der Loo [aut, cre],
  Jan van der Laan [ctb]
NeedsCompilation: yes
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-10-07 11:23:55
