compress_lookup: Collapse Redundant Rows of a Lookup Table
In DOPE: Drug Ontology Parsing Engine

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Given a Drug Lookup table as returned by the function lookup, collapse rows from unwanted columns

compress_lookup(
  lookupTable,
  compressOriginalWord = FALSE,
  compressClass = FALSE,
  compressCategory = FALSE,
  compressSynonym = TRUE
)

`lookupTable`	A lookup table with category `data.frame` having three columns: drug class, drug category, and drug street name. These tables are returned by the function `lookup`.
`compressOriginalWord`	Should the search word(s) be collapsed? Defaults to `FALSE`.
`compressClass`	Should the drug class be collapsed? Defaults to `FALSE`.
`compressCategory`	Should the drug category be collapsed? Defaults to `FALSE`.
`compressSynonym`	Should the drug synonym / street name be collapsed? Defaults to `TRUE`.

A compressed lookup table, with unwanted columns removed.

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  longExampleTable <- lookup("dope", "methamphetamine")
  compress_lookup(longExampleTable)
  compress_lookup(longExampleTable, compressCategory = TRUE)