stringdist.variety: Fuzzymatch varieties using stringdist_join
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stringdist.variety

R Documentation

Fuzzymatch varieties using stringdist_join

Description

Fuzzymatch the varieties from the raw data with the database using an internal id. This function uses stringdist_join and returns the closest match (smallest distance) To have enough flexibility without returning too many fuzzy matches, this function returns the closest match measured in 2 different ways:

select the best_n varieties with the smallest distance, and then select the best_n varieties that have the smallest scaled distance
select the best_n varieties with the smallest scaled distance, irrespective of the raw distance See the effect of these different selection methods in test_match_variety_fns.R

Usage

stringdist.variety(
  raw_data,
  database,
  intid_col = "name",
  best_n,
  method_stringdist
)

Arguments

`raw_data`	A data.frame
`database`	A data.frame
`intid_col`	A string denoting the name of the internal id column used to join the raw data and database
`best_n`	A numeric denoting the number of best matches to select
`suffix`	A string denoting the name of the raw data
`method`	A string corresponding to a string metric defined by stringdist e.g. "lw", "jw"