Get string distances, optionally using multiple cores

Get string distances, optionally using multiple cores

dedup_get_stringDistances(
  x,
  y = x,
  stringDistanceMethod = "osa",
  parallel = FALSE,
  silent = metabefor::opts$get("silent")
)

Arguments

x

The first vector

y

The second vector

stringDistanceMethod

The method to use ("osa", "lv", "dl", "hamming", "lcs", "qgram", "cosine", "jaccard", "jw", or "soundex")

parallel

Whether to use parallel processing

silent

Whether to be silent or chatty