genericDists: generic function for exact matching single columns

In Hackout3/epimatch: Tools for finding close matches in epi data

Description

generic function for exact matching single columns

Usage

genericDists(dat1, dat2 = NULL, strings = FALSE)

Arguments

dat1, dat2	data frames of data to match
strings	whether to use the edit distance rather than exact matches

Value

a pairwise matrix of scores from 0 (exact match) to 1 (no match)

Examples

set.seed(9)
x <- data.frame(dat = sample(10, replace = TRUE))
x$let <- letters[x$dat]
genericDists(x["dat"])
genericDists(x["let"], strings = TRUE)

Hackout3/epimatch documentation built on May 6, 2019, 9:48 p.m.