Same behavior was noted on R 2.9.0 OS X and WIndows. > t(sapply(seq(0.01, .99, length=20), function(x) c(x, > length(agrep("Staatssekretar im > Bundeskanzleramt","Bundeskanzler",max.distance=x))))) [1,] 0.01000000 0 [2,] 0.06157895 0 [3,] 0.11315789 0 [4,] 0.16473684 0 [5,] 0.21631579 0 [6,] 0.26789474 0 [7,] 0.31947368 0 [8,] 0.37105263 0 [9,] 0.42263158 0 [10,] 0.47421053 0 [11,] 0.52578947 0 [12,] 0.57736842 0 [13,] 0.62894737 1 [14,] 0.68052632 1 [15,] 0.73210526 1 [16,] 0.78368421 1 [17,] 0.83526316 1 [18,] 0.88684211 0 ## NOTE that there is a match reported with a threshold _lower_ than this! [19,] 0.93842105 0 [20,] 0.99000000 1
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