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Hi, Before I reinvent the wheel I wanted to kindly ask you for your opinion if there is a simple way to do it. I want to merge a larger number of tables from different data sources in R and the matching criterium are country names. The tables are of different size and sometimes the country names do differ slightly. Has anyone done this or any recommendation on what commands I

Dear R-members, Suppose I have a vector with the following strings: V = c("Welfare_Group_1024", "Welfare_Group_1536", "Welfare_Group_160") I want to 'automatically generate a nice y-axis label for this data. A good candidate is something close to "Welfare Group". Is there an easy way to compute something close to the greatest common