createID: createID

In sigbertklinke/findMatch: Matches observations based on strings with the Levensthein distance

Description

Creates a variable with the unique values from all entries in vars.

Usage

createID(data, vars = NULL, exclude = c("", "."),
  ignore.case = FALSE)

Arguments

data	list of data frames
vars	vector of variables. One for each data frame.
exclude	entries to be excluded from the unique values
ignore.case	if FALSE, the uniques values are case sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored

Value

a vector with the unique values

Examples

set.seed(0)
# create two data sets which consists of
# 200 obs. only in t1, 200 obs. in t1 and t2 and
# 100 obs. only in t2
n <- list(c(200, 1), c(200, 1, 2), c(100, 2))
x <- generateTestData(n)
ucode <- createID(x, vars=c('code', 'code'), ignore.case=TRUE)
head(ucode)

sigbertklinke/findMatch documentation built on July 12, 2019, 9:22 a.m.