Re: [R] merge on non-identical names

2009-11-24 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
See agrep: agrep("American Services", "Americam Services") On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, j daniel wrote: > > Greetings, > > I need to conduct a merge on two databases containing information on > organizations, but the organization names are often non-identical and there > is no common unique

[R] merge on non-identical names

2009-11-24 Thread j daniel
Greetings, I need to conduct a merge on two databases containing information on organizations, but the organization names are often non-identical and there is no common unique identifier. Does anyone know a good way to calculate a similarity measure on two names, or even better is there a natura