matchNames: Find similar names in dictionary

In 2DegreesInvesting/pacta: Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment

Description

Function compares given name with elements of dictionary, callculates simiarity scores and returns result in data.frame format. Matching results might be optionally filtered according to threshold value

Usage

matchNames(names, dictionary, threshold = 0.95, return = "closest")

Arguments

names	name to compare against dictionary
dictionary	set of plausible values to chose from
threshold	threshold value, minimum score to filter out results with lower score
return	what values to return from c("closest", "all"). Return type "closest" works much faster and returns only 1 match per name with highest score.

Value

Function returns dataframe with columns Name, Dictionary, Score. Number of rows in dataframe depends on number of names and number of mathces that have a score higher than the threshold

2DegreesInvesting/pacta documentation built on June 17, 2019, 12:04 p.m.