For some strings I get a wrong (MiscPsycho) Levenstein distance: > stringMatch("abc", "ab", normalize="NO") [1] 1
> stringMatch("abc", "bc", normalize="NO") [1] 2 I think the lines d <- matrix(0, nrow = n + 1, ncol = m + 1) d[, 1] <- 1:(n + 1) d[1, ] <- 1:(m + 1) d[1, 1] <- 0 should be changed to d <- matrix(0, nrow = n + 1, ncol = m + 1) d[, 1] <- 0:n d[1, ] <- 0:m ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.