BlockRlData: Block a record linkage dataset
In kaylafrisoli/ActiveRL:

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Block a record linkage dataset by substrings of the variables in the dataset

1 2	BlockRlData(RLdata, var.names, n.chars = NULL, unique.ids = NULL, pre.block.record = c(TRUE, FALSE))

`RLdata`	a data frame containing the records to be matched
`var.names`	a vector of strings containing the variable names you want to block by
`n.chars`	a vector of integers corresponding to the number of the characters you want to compare in each variable of var.names
`unique.ids`	a vector containing the true unique identifiers of the records in RLdata. It should be of length nrow(RLdata)

A list containing blocking information and the blocked data and ids

`BlockInfo`	a list of blocking information: blocks, factors, reduction.ratio
`DataSplit`	a list of datasets corresponding to each block
`IdSplit`	a list of vectors containing the unique ids corresponding to each block

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BlockBySubstr(iris, "Species") #identifies 2 blocks
BlockBySubstr(iris, "Species", 2) #identifies 3 blocks
BlockBySubstr(iris, c("Species", "Sepal.Length"), c(2,1)) #identifies 3 blocks