act_make_dict: act_make_dict

In deansayre/Rtesunate: Rtesunate

act_make_dict

Description

Creates a dataframe and optionally Excel file that can be subsequently used as a dictionary in matchmaker or linelist for assignment of uniform spellings across multiple dataframes

Usage

act_make_dict(
  vec1,
  list1,
  excel = TRUE,
  filename = "dictionary.xlsx",
  method = "osa"
)

Arguments

vec1	Vector designated as correctly spelled (e.g., health facility names in dataframe 1) to which all others will be changed for the purposes of matching
list1	Either a vector or list of vectors that will be used for matching multiple datasets (e.g., health facility names in dataframes 2, 3, and 4)
excel	Whether or not to write to Excel, accepts TRUE (default) or FALSE
filename	Name to be used for Excel dictionary file, if Excel = TRUE (default is "dictionary.xlsx"; must be written in quotes)

Value

A database (and optionally an Excel file) showing R's guesses how to change spellings to match those in the specified "good spelling" vector, vec1. Some of the spelling guesses made by R will undoubtedly be incorrect and will have to be edited by hand for use as a dictionary, hence the default writing to Excel. Variable names: (1) change_to: R's guess for the good spelling to use (2) change_from: The "bad spelling" to change (3) goodspell_options_unmatched: The "correctly spelled" variables in vec1 that do not have a match in list1 or a match suggested by the function (4) goodspell_options_all: All of the unique entries in vec1

Examples

vec1 <- c("Frank", "Tom", "Jerry")
vec2 <- c("frank", "fraak", "Larry")
vec3 <- c("Frank", "thom", "gerry")
vec4 <- c("Frank", "tom", "Harry")
list1 <- list(vec2, vec3, vec4)

dictionary <- act_make_dict(vec1, list1)

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