Re: [R] Merge data frame with mispelling characters

2012-11-02 Thread VictorDelgado
David Winsemius wrote > On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:20 AM, VictorDelgado wrote: > >> Hello dear R-helpers, >> >> I'm working with R-2.15.2 on Windows 7 OS. I'm stucked with a merge of >> two >> data frames by characters. >> In each data frame I got two different list of names, that is my main-key >> t

Re: [R] Merge data frame with mispelling characters

2012-11-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:20 AM, VictorDelgado wrote: > Hello dear R-helpers, > > I'm working with R-2.15.2 on Windows 7 OS. I'm stucked with a merge of two > data frames by characters. > In each data frame I got two different list of names, that is my main-key to > be merged. > > To figure out wh

Re: [R] Merge data frame with mispelling characters

2012-11-02 Thread jim holtman
You might try the 'soundex' function in the RecordLinkage package: > soundex('ripley') [1] "R140" > soundex('rippley') [1] "R140" > soundex('venable') [1] "V514" > soundex('venables') [1] "V514" > soundex('terney') [1] "T650" > soundex('tierney') [1] "T650" On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Victor

[R] Merge data frame with mispelling characters

2012-11-02 Thread VictorDelgado
Hello dear R-helpers, I'm working with R-2.15.2 on Windows 7 OS. I'm stucked with a merge of two data frames by characters. In each data frame I got two different list of names, that is my main-key to be merged. To figure out what I'm saying, I build up a modified "?merge" example, with errors b