weird behavior of DoubleMetaphone
No real need to answer. I found that function 'metaphone' from package
"phonics" doesn't misbehave this way!
library(phonics)
mymetaphone = function(x){
temp <- strsplit(x, split=" ")[[1]]
for(word in 1:length(temp)){
temp[word]<-metaphone(temp[word])
}
return(paste(temp, collapse = ""))
}
The next 4 lines return the same thing:
metaphone("netflix")
metaphone("net flex")
mymetaphone("netflix")
mymetaphone("net flex")
Dimitri
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
I was wondering if anyone can answer this question.
library(PGRdup)
Both lines below return "NTFL".
DoubleMetaphone("netflix")$primary
DoubleMetaphone("net flex")$primary
Now, I modify the function a bit - I first split the string on
"space", then merge back together:
mymetaphone = function(x){
temp <- strsplit(x, split=" ")[[1]]
for(word in 1:length(temp)){
temp[word]<-DoubleMetaphone(temp[word])$primary
}
return(paste(temp, collapse = ""))
}
mymetaphone("netflix") # returns "NTFL"
mymetaphone("net flex") # returns "NTFLKS"
Why such a difference between DoubleMetaphone("net flex")$primary and
mymetaphone("net flex")?
Why isn't DoubleMetaphone("net flex")$primary returning "NTFLKS"?
Thank you!
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Dimitri Liakhovitski
Dimitri Liakhovitski