Find similar names in a vector in R

Asked Feb 24 '21 at 20:04

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The data is as follows:

abc <- c('New York','New Yorkk','Paris','Pari',"Dublin")

I want to find similar names in this vector and make a resulting data frame that has the count of similar names and non-similar names.

The output should be like the result generated by the following data frame:

results <- data.frame(Length = length(abc),
                      Similar_names = 2,
                      Not_Similar_Names=1)

asked Feb 24 '21 at 20:04

Rohan Bali

Define similarity. – John Coleman Feb 24 '21 at 20:08
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How exactly do you define similar? Is this specifically for city names? I'm sure there are a lot of valid city names that are different by one letter. – MrFlick Feb 24 '21 at 20:08
Maybe this can help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59541292/r-finding-elements-matching-with-each-other-within-a-vector – MrFlick Feb 24 '21 at 20:10
Well, the actual data doesn't have exact city names. I need to use cosine similarity or fuzzy logic to get the result – Rohan Bali Feb 24 '21 at 20:11
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2020/05/how-to-apply-text-distances-and-fuzzy-joins/ – DPH Feb 24 '21 at 20:13

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