David Winsemius
On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:03 AM, srinivasa raghavan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new user of R using R 2.8.1 in windows 2003. I have a csv
> file with
> single column which contain the 30,000 students names. There were typo
> errors while entering this student names. The actual list of names
> is <
> 1000. However we dont have that list for keyword search.
>
> I am interested in grouping/cluster these names as those which are
> similar letter to letter. Are there any text clustering algorithm
> in R
> which can group names of similar type in to segments of exactly
> matching ,
> 90% matching, 80% matching,....etc.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> regards,
> srinivas
> statistical analyst.
>
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