R6 Class representing two datasets to be linked.

Has information on the two datasets, and the details of how to link them.

Methods

Public methods

• Hismatch$new()

• Hismatch$print()

• Hismatch$addLinkingVariables()

• Hismatch$setNames()

• Hismatch$createLinkingData()

• Hismatch$createBlocks()

• Hismatch$setupData()

• Hismatch$fuzzyMatch()

• Hismatch$executeLinking()

• Hismatch$mergeBackInData()

• Hismatch$vectorReorder()

• Hismatch$runMatching()

• Hismatch$getStatistics()

• Hismatch$getMatchingRatesByVariable()

• Hismatch$getMatchingRatesByVariable_DT()

• Hismatch$plotMatchingByGroup()

• Hismatch$iterative_link()

• Hismatch$iterative_link_by_year()

• Hismatch$clone()

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Method new()

Usage

Hismatch$new(
  data1 = NA,
  data2 = NA,
  firstname = NA,
  surname = NA,
  blocks = NA,
  dist_thr = 0.75,
  rel_thr = NA,
  max_block_size = 50000,
  letters = 1,
  matching_method = c("jw"),
  unify_middlenames = FALSE
)

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Method print()

Usage

Hismatch$print()

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Method addLinkingVariables()

Usage

Hismatch$addLinkingVariables(data_input)

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Method setNames()

Usage

Hismatch$setNames(data_input, suffix)

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Method createLinkingData()

Usage

Hismatch$createLinkingData(data_input)

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Method createBlocks()

Usage

Hismatch$createBlocks(data)

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Method setupData()

Usage

Hismatch$setupData(data_input, suffix)

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Method fuzzyMatch()

Usage

Hismatch$fuzzyMatch(data1, data2, block_number)

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Method executeLinking()

Usage

Hismatch$executeLinking(data1, data2, blocks_data)

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Method mergeBackInData()

Usage

Hismatch$mergeBackInData(merged_data, master1, master2)

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Method vectorReorder()

Usage

Hismatch$vectorReorder(dataset)

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Method runMatching()

Usage

Hismatch$runMatching()

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Method getStatistics()

Usage

Hismatch$getStatistics()

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Method getMatchingRatesByVariable()

Usage

Hismatch$getMatchingRatesByVariable(stat_variable, data)

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Method getMatchingRatesByVariable_DT()

Usage

Hismatch$getMatchingRatesByVariable_DT(variable_list, data)

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Method plotMatchingByGroup()

Usage

Hismatch$plotMatchingByGroup(type_restriction)

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Method iterative_link()

Usage

Hismatch$iterative_link(
  output_folder,
  block_list,
  name_string,
  source_from,
  source_to
)

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Method iterative_link_by_year()

Usage

Hismatch$iterative_link_by_year(
  data,
  years,
  name_string,
  output_folder,
  block_list,
  plus_years = 1
)

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

Hismatch$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.