meltt.taxonomy: Handling of taxonomy inputs [Auxiliary Function].

In meltt: Matching Event Data by Location, Time and Type

Handling of taxonomy inputs [Auxiliary Function].

Description

Auxiliary function that maps secondary taxonomies onto the input data and transforms the taxonomies into a numerical matrices.

Usage

meltt.taxonomy(data, taxonomies)

Arguments

data	object of class data.frame.
taxonomies	object of class list, containing data.frames of input taxonomies for secondary matching criteria.

Details

meltt.taxonomy maps the user-created taxonomies onto the input data, and converts the taxonomy to a numerical matrix. The taxonomies are used as secondary criteria in the matching procedure.

Value

Returns a numerical matrix that contains all data indices, date/enddate, longitude/latitude, and taxonomies.

Author(s)

Karsten Donnay and Eric Dunford.

References

Karsten Donnay, Eric T. Dunford, Erin C. McGrath, David Backer, David E. Cunningham. (2018). "Integrating Conflict Event Data." Journal of Conflict Resolution.

See Also

meltt

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