merge_utils-package: Functions to aid merging disparate datasets

In vapniks/mergeutils: Functions to aid merging and checking disparate data

Description

This package contains various functions for checking data, recoding variables, and merging dataframes.

Details

Package:	mergeutils
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2014-07-17
License:	GNU GPLv3

This package is useful when you have to merge together several different data sources. You can make sure the variables are coded consistently across dataframes using the various recode functions: recodeMatches, recodeAs, recodeDF, and recodeDFas. Then you can merge them together using multimerge which allows some flexibility in which rows are included for each dataframe. Then you can check your results using the checkVar and checkDF functions. You can also check for duplicate rows across dataframes using the dupsBetweenDFs function. There are also some utility functions such as colwise2 (a variation of the plyr function colwise), unfactor (turn a factor into a numeric/character vector), matchStrings (find nearest matches from one set of strings to another).

Author(s)

Joe Bloggs

Maintainer: Who to complain to <[e-mail]>

References

http://www.cookbook-r.com/Manipulating_data/Comparing_data_frames/

See Also

recode merge

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