text.alignment
This repository contains an R package for aligning texts using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. This is especially usefull if you want to
- Find names in documents even if they are not correctly spelled
- Match 2 texts
- Find relevant sequences of texts in other texts
Installation
- For regular users, install the package from your local CRAN mirror
install.packages("text.alignment") - For installing the development version of this package:
remotes::install_github("DIGI-VUB/text.alignment", build_vignettes = TRUE)
Look to the vignette and the documentation of the functions
vignette("textalignment", package = "text.alignment")
help(package = "text.alignment")
DIGI
By DIGI: Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities: https://digi.research.vub.be
