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spell.replacer

Probabilistic Spelling Correction in a Character Vector

v1.0.1 · Sep 3, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Automatically replaces "misspelled" words in a character vector based on their string distance from a list of words sorted by their frequency in a corpus. The default word list provided in the package comes from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Uses the Jaro-Winkler distance metric for string similarity as implemented in van der Loo (2014) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2014-011>. The word frequency data is derived from Davies (2008-) "The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)" <https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies hunspell stringr stringdist textclean spell.replacer

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new 1.0.1 Mar 9, 2026