Fuzzy merging in R - seeking help to improve my code
问题 Inspired by the experimental fuzzy_join function from the statar package I wrote a function myself which combines exact and fuzzy (by string distances) matching. The merging job I have to do is quite big (resulting into multiple string distance matrices with a little bit less than one billion cells) and I had the impression that the fuzzy_join function is not written very efficiently (with regard to memory usage) and the parallelization is implemented in a weird manner (the computation of the