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As a rule of thumb,
- Standardize strings before comparing them (cases, whitespaces, accents, abbreviations...)
- Only consider using one of the Edit distances if word order matters.
- The distance `Tokenmax(RatcliffObershelp())` is a good choice to link names or adresses across datasets.
- The distance `Tokenmax(Levenshtein())` is a good choice to link names or adresses across datasets.
## References
- [The stringdist Package for Approximate String Matching](https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2014-1/loo.pdf) Mark P.J. van der Loo