find_match_str: Find a string in a database of known strings

In Smithsonian/collexScrub: Scripts and Tools to Clean Scientific Collection Records

Description

Function to check a string that has problems due to incomplete transcription, OCR problems, illegible words, and other problems.

Usage

find_match_str(str_to_check, database, method = "osa", no_cores = 2,
  year_limits = FALSE, country_limits = FALSE, database_strings = NA,
  str_to_check_col = NA)

Arguments

str_to_check	String to check against the database
database	Database of known strings
method	Which method to use to try to find a match, See Details below
no_cores	How many cores to dedicate to this function execution
year_limits	Boolean whether to use year to limit the strings available to match
country_limits	Boolean whether to use country to limit the strings available to match
database_strings	Which column to use for matching in database, only needed if it is more than one columns
str_to_check_col	Which column to use for matching in str_to_check, only needed if it is more than one columns

Details

The method arguments is passed to stringdist::stringdist(). To see the details of the methods available, see ?stringdist::`stringdist-metrics`.

Value

A dataframe of str_to_check (the string provided), match (the string matched from the database), score (the score for this string).

Smithsonian/collexScrub documentation built on July 19, 2019, 6:59 p.m.