Fast Levenshtein distance in R?

Question

Is there a package that contains Levenshtein distance counting function which is implemented as a C or Fortran code? I have many strings to compare and stringMatch

Answer 1

You could also use levenshtein_distance() from the textTinyR package. I got 'calloc' memory errors with all other packages when it came to larger character vectors of around 30k characters. Only textTinyR worked for me!