Re: [R] Comparing/diffing strings

2010-08-24 Thread Hadley Wickham
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: > On 08/24/2010 07:27 AM, Doran, Harold wrote: >> There is the stringMatch function in the MiscPsycho package. >> >>> stringMatch('Hadley', 'Hadley Wickham', normalize = 'no') >> [1] 8 >>> stringMatch('Hadley', 'Hadley Wickham', normalize = 'y

Re: [R] Comparing/diffing strings

2010-08-24 Thread Martin Morgan
ick score: 29.5102 > aln <- pairwiseAlignment("Hadley Hamwick", "Haderley Hamwich") > consensusMatrix(aln)["-",] [1] 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Martin > > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun..

Re: [R] Comparing/diffing strings

2010-08-24 Thread Doran, Harold
un...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:17 AM To: R-help Subject: [R] Comparing/diffing strings Hi all, all.equal is generally very useful when you want to find the differences between two objects. It breaks dow

Re: [R] Comparing/diffing strings

2010-08-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 24-Aug-10 14:16:55, Hadley Wickham wrote: > Hi all, > all.equal is generally very useful when you want to find the > differences between two objects. It breaks down however, > when you have two long strings to compare: > >> all.equal(a, b) > [1] "1 string mismatch" > > Does any one know of an

[R] Comparing/diffing strings

2010-08-24 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, all.equal is generally very useful when you want to find the differences between two objects. It breaks down however, when you have two long strings to compare: > all.equal(a, b) [1] "1 string mismatch" Does any one know of any good text diffing tools implemented in R? Thanks, Hadley