Small distance, small difference
In the video exercise, you learned that there are multiple ways to calculate how similar or different two strings are. Now you'll practice using the stringdist
package to compute string distances using various methods. It's important to be familiar with different methods, as some methods work better on certain datasets, while others work better on other datasets.
The stringdist
package has been loaded for you.
This exercise is part of the course
Cleaning Data in R
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Calculate Damerau-Levenshtein distance
stringdist(___, ___, method = ___)