combine_match_general_to_trades_plain: Match general to trades directory records
In podcleaner: Legacy Scottish Post Office Directories Cleaner

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also

Attempts to complement Scottish post office trades directory data.frame with house address information from the Scottish post office general directory data.frame provided by matching records from the two datasets using the distance metric specified.

combine_match_general_to_trades_plain(
  trades_directory,
  general_directory,
  verbose,
  matches,
  ...
)

`trades_directory`	A Scottish post office trades directory in the form of a data.frame or other object that inherits from the data.frame class such as a `tibble`. Columns must at least include `surname`, `forename`, `address.trade.number`, `address.trade.body`.
`general_directory`	A Scottish post office general directory in the form of a data.frame or other object that inherits from the data.frame class such as a `tibble`. Columns must at least include `surname`, `forename`, `address.trade.number`, `address.trade.body`, `address.house.number`, `address.house.body`.
`verbose`	Whether the function should be executed silently (`FALSE`) or not (`TRUE`).
`matches`	Whether (`TRUE`) or not (`FALSE`) a column 'match' showing general directory matches' name and address(es) should be added to the output dataset.
`...`	Further arguments to be passed down to `stringdist_left_join`.

A data.frame of the same class as that of the one provided in trades_directory and/or general_directory. Should trades_directory and general_directorybe provided as objects of different classes, the class of the return data.frame will be that of the parent class. i.e. if trades_directory and general_directory are provided as a pure data.frame and a tibble respectively, a pure data.frame is returned. Columns include at least surname, forename, address.trade.number, address.trade.body, address.house.number, address.house.body.