merge_entities: Combine and deduplicate entity datasets

In LBDiscover: Literature-Based Discovery Tools for Biomedical Research

Combine and deduplicate entity datasets

Description

This function combines custom and standard entity datasets, handling the case where one or both might be empty, and removes duplicates.

Usage

merge_entities(
  custom_entities,
  standard_entities,
  primary_term,
  primary_type = "disease",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

custom_entities	Data frame of custom entities (can be NULL)
standard_entities	Data frame of standard entities (can be NULL)
primary_term	The primary term of interest
primary_type	The entity type of the primary term (default: "disease")
verbose	Logical; if TRUE, print status messages (default: TRUE)

Value

A data frame of combined entities

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