Compute String Similarity Scores

Computes multiple string-similarity metrics between two strings in a single call. No database connection is required. Useful for quick exploration of how names or other text fields compare.

Usage

il_string_similarity(a, b)

Arguments

a

A character string.

b

A character string.

Value

A single-row tibble with columns jaro_winkler, jaro, levenshtein, jaccard, and cosine.

Examples

il_string_similarity('John', 'Jon')
#> # A tibble: 1 × 5
#>   jaro_winkler  jaro levenshtein jaccard cosine
#>          <dbl> <dbl>       <int>   <dbl>  <dbl>
#> 1        0.933 0.917           1    0.25  0.408