RLResult-class: Class "RLResult"

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

Class "RLResult"

Description

A class that represents the result of a record linkage procedure with big data sets.

Objects from the Class

Objects from this class are created by the classification functions in this package, e.g. classifySupv. Directly creating instances by calling new is neither necessary nor recommended.

Slots

data:

Object of class "RLBigData". The data set which was classified.

prediction:

Object of class "ff". A vector with classification result for every record pair, coded by levels "N" for a non-link, "P" for a possible link and "L" for a link.

Methods

clone

signature(object = "RLResult")

getDbFile

signature(object = "RLResult")

getErrorMeasures

signature(object = "RLResult")

getPairs

signature(object = "RLResult")

getTable

signature(object = "RLResult")

saveRLObject

signature(object = "RLResult")

Note

The slot data uses a database to store data and create comparison patterns, thus assignment of a "RLResult" object to a different variable can lead to undesired results. Use clone to make a distinct copy. Similarly, the standard save mechanism does not work; saveRLObject and loadRLObject are provided to make objects persistent over different R sessions.

Author(s)

Andreas Borg, Murat Sariyar

See Also

classifySupv, emClassify and epiClassify create objects of this type.

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