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firmmatchr

Robust Probabilistic Matching for German Company Names

v0.1.3 · Mar 6, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

A pipeline for matching messy company name strings against a clean dictionary (e.g., 'Orbis'). Implements a cascading strategy: Exact -> Fuzzy ('zoomerjoin') -> 'FTS5' ('SQLite') -> Rarity Weighted. References: Beniamino Green (2025) <https://beniamino.org/zoomerjoin/>; <https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies data.table stringi stringdist zoomerjoin DBI RSQLite cli progressr httr jsonlite glue purrr readr dplyr firmmatchr

Version History

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new 0.1.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Mar 5, 2026
new 0.1.2 Feb 10, 2026