join_data: Perform LeftJoin on Data
In MatthiasUckert/Rmatch: A General Package For Any Matching Tasks

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

1	join_data(.source, .target, .cols_match, .cols_join, .method = "osa")

`.source`	The Source Dataframe. (Must contain a unique column id and the columns you want to match on)
`.target`	The Target Dataframe. (Must contain a unique column id and the columns you want to match on)
`.cols_match`	A character vector of columns to perform fuzzy matching.
`.cols_join`	Columns to perfrom an exact match on, before fuzzy-matching. (Matched IDs will be excluded from fuzzy-match)
`.method`	One of "osa", "lv", "dl", "hamming", "lcs", "qgram", "cosine", "jaccard", "jw", "soundex". See: stringdist-metrics stringdist

A Dataframe

join_data(
  .source = table_source,
  .target = table_target,
  .cols_match = c("name", "iso3", "city", "address"),
  .cols_join = c("name", "iso3"),
  .method = "osa"
)