Naturallanguageprocessing, String Matching, R, Jaro Winkler, Levenshtein Distance.
distance function to calculate the edit distance between string_a and string_b. To calculate Levenshtein Distance and Levenshtein Similarity in R, simply use functions in the RecordLinkage package: library(RecordLinkage) levenshtein_distance = levenshteinDist(string_a, string_b)