The fuzzywuzzyR package is a fuzzy string matching implementation of the fuzzywuzzy python package. It uses the Levenshtein Distance to calculate the differences between sequences. More details on the functionality of fuzzywuzzyR can be found in the blog-post and in the package Vignette.
Python (>= 3.8)
difflib
fuzzywuzzy ( >=0.15.0 )
python-Levenshtein ( >=0.12.0, optional, provides a 4-10x speedup in String Matching, though may result in differing results for certain cases)
Before the installation of any python modules one should check the python-configuration using :
reticulate::py_config()All modules should be installed in the default python configuration (the configuration that the R-session displays as default), otherwise errors might occur during package installation.
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install fuzzywuzzy
pip3 install python-LevenshteinUsers of the fuzzywuzzyR package will find the required
information on how to configure Python for Mac OSX and
Windows OS in the reticulate Github
repository. The fuzzywuzzyR package depends on the
reticulate package.
To install the package from CRAN use,
install.packages('fuzzywuzzyR')
and to download the latest version from Github use the
install_github function of the remotes package,
remotes::install_github(repo = 'mlampros/fuzzywuzzyR')
Use the following link to report bugs/issues,
https://github.com/mlampros/fuzzywuzzyR/issues
If you use the code of this repository in your paper or research please cite both fuzzywuzzyR and the original software https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fuzzywuzzyR/citation.html:
@Manual{,
title = {{fuzzywuzzyR}: Fuzzy String Matching in R},
author = {Lampros Mouselimis},
year = {2025},
note = {R package version 1.0.6},
url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fuzzywuzzyR},
}