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Interface to phonetic coding functions.
soundex(str)
A character vector or matrix with the same size and dimensions as str, containing its phonetic encoding.
str
A character vector or matrix.
Andreas Borg (R interface only)
soundex is a widespread algorithm for English names. This implementation can only handle common characters. It strips off non-alphabetical characters.
soundex
The C code for soundex was taken from PostgreSQL 8.3.6.
see also https://www.codedrome.com/the-soundex-algorithm-in-c/
jarowinkler and levenshteinSim for string comparison.
jarowinkler
levenshteinSim