How can I match fuzzy match strings from two datasets?
Here is a solution using the fuzzyjoin package. It uses dplyr-like syntax and stringdist as one of the possible types of fuzzy matching. As suggested by @C8H10N4O2, the stringdist method=”jw” creates the best matches for your example. As suggested by @dgrtwo, the developer of fuzzyjoin, I used a large max_dist and then used dplyr::group_by and … Read more