Compute an approximate string distance between character vectors containing authors' names (of the form "family name, first name"). The distance is a weighted proportion of the differences between (capitalized) family names and between first name initial letters.

adist_authors(authors, table, weight = c(family = 0.9, name = 0.1))

Arguments

authors

author names to be approximately matched.

table

lookup table for matching.

weight

weights associated with differences in family names and in first names.

See also