Package: stringdist
Maintainer: Mark van der Loo <mark.vanderloo@gmail.com>
License: GPL-3
Title: Approximate String Matching, Fuzzy Text Search, and String
        Distance Functions
Type: Package
LazyLoad: yes
Authors@R: c( person("Mark", "van der Loo", role=c("aut","cre")
             , email="mark.vanderloo@gmail.com"
             , comment= c(ORCID="0000-0002-9807-4686"))
            , person("Jan", "van der Laan", role="ctb")
            , person("R Core Team",""     , role="ctb")
            , person("Nick","Logan"       , role="ctb")
            , person("Chris","Muir"       , role="ctb")
            , person("Johannes", "Gruber" , role="ctb")
            , person("Brian","Ripley"     , role="ctb"))
Description: Implements an approximate string matching version of R's
        native 'match' function. Also offers fuzzy text search based on
        various string distance measures. 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. Distances can be
        computed between character vectors while taking proper care of
        encoding or between integer vectors representing generic
        sequences. This package is built for speed and runs in parallel
        by using 'openMP'. An API for C or C++ is exposed as well.
        Reference: MPJ van der Loo (2014) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-011>.
Version: 0.9.16
Depends: R (>= 2.15.3)
URL: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist
BugReports: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist/issues
Suggests: tinytest
Imports: parallel
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Repository: https://fastverse.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-01-16 08:38:37 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/markvanderloo/stringdist
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ea57435068c508ca3b023ff866524dd34b429167
RemoteSubdir: pkg
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-06-15 08:56:55 UTC; root
Author: Mark van der Loo [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9807-4686>),
  Jan van der Laan [ctb],
  R Core Team [ctb],
  Nick Logan [ctb],
  Chris Muir [ctb],
  Johannes Gruber [ctb],
  Brian Ripley [ctb]