makeMerge: makeMerge

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

Description

Creates a a data set consisting of all variables according to the matching results

Usage

makeMerge(data, files, full = FALSE, duplicates.ok = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

data	list of data frames
files	list of files which contain the actual matches
full	logical: return full data set (non-matching are observations are filels with NA) or just matched obs, defaults to FALSE
duplicates.ok	logical: Are duplicates ok, defaults ton FALSE
...	further parameters given to import for importing match data

Value

a data frame with merged data

Examples

set.seed(0)
# create two data sets where the second 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)
#
match <- findMatch(x, c('code', 'code'))
head(match)
## Not run: 
exportMatch(match, 'match.xlsx')
# creates an error since we have duplicate matches
data <- makeMerge(x, 'match.xlsx')

## End(Not run)

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