How can I match fuzzy match strings from two datasets?
问题 I\'ve been working on a way to join two datasets based on a imperfect string, such as a name of a company. In the past I had to match two very dirty lists, one list had names and financial information, another list had names and address. Neither had unique IDs to match on! ASSUME THAT CLEANING HAS ALREADY BEEN APPLIED AND THERE MAYBE TYPOS AND INSERTIONS. So far AGREP is the closest tool I\'ve found that might work. I can use levenshtein distances in the AGREP package, which measure the