classconc-package: Classes and methods for concordances between classifications.

Description Details

Description

Social and economic statistics is full of classifications, such as classifications of occupations, geographic areas, or educational qualifications. A concordance is a mapping between two classifications. Package classconc contains classes and methods for dealing with classifications and concordances.

Details

Concordances are held in objects of class OneToOne or ManyToOne, and are created using function Concordance.

The names of the classifications used by a concordances are extracted or changed using functions classifications, classificationFrom and classificationTo. The codes within a concordance are extracted using functioncodes.

Concordances are combined using functions chain and splice.

A set of codes from one classification can be converted to another classification using function translate.


StatisticsNZ/classconc documentation built on May 9, 2019, 2:03 p.m.