RLBigData-class: Class "RLBigData"

In RecordLinkage: Record Linkage Functions for Linking and Deduplicating Data Sets

Class "RLBigData"

Description

Abstract class for big data sets.

Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be created from it.

Slots in "RLBigData"

frequencies:

Object of class "numeric". Average frequency of values for each column of the underlying data (1 / of number of distinct values)

blockFld:

Object of class "list". Blocking definition. See documentation for constructor functions for details.

excludeFld:

Object of class "numeric". Indices of attributes which are not considered for comparison.

strcmpFld:

Object of class "numeric". Indices of attributes on which a string comparator is executed.

strcmpFun:

Object of class "character". String representing the string comparison function.

phoneticFld:

Object of class "numeric". Indices of attributes on which a phonetic code is generated.

phoneticFun:

Object of class "character". String representing the phonetic coding function.

drv:

Object of class "DBIDriver". Database driver.

con:

Object of class "DBIConnection". Database connection.

Methods

begin

signature(x = "RLBigData")

classifySupv

signature(model = "RecLinkClassif", newdata = "RLBigData")

clear

signature(x = "RLBigData")

clone

signature(object = "RLBigData")

emClassify

signature(rpairs = "RLBigData")

emWeights

signature(rpairs = "RLBigData")

epiClassify

signature(rpairs = "RLBigData")

epiWeights

signature(rpairs = "RLBigData")

getDbFile

signature(object = "RLBigData")

getFrequencies

signature(x = "RLBigData")

getMatchCount

signature(object = "RLBigData")

getNACount

signature(object = "RLBigData")

getPairs

signature(object = "RLBigData")

getPatternCounts

signature(x = "RLBigData")

getSQLStatement

signature(object = "RLBigData")

nextPairs

signature(x = "RLBigData")

saveRLObject

signature(object = "RLBigData")

show

signature(object = "RLBigData")

Author(s)

Andreas Borg

See Also

Non-abstract subclasses "RLBigDataDedup" and "RLBigDataLinkage" with constructors RLBigDataDedup and RLBigDataLinkage.

Examples

showClass("RLBigData")

RecordLinkage documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 6:05 p.m.