%append%-methods {RecordLinkage} | R Documentation |
Concatenate comparison patterns or classification results
Description
Combines two object of class "RecLinkData"
or "RecLinkResult"
by concatenating comparison patterns
and, if available, weights and classification results.
Usage
x %append% y
## S4 method for signature 'RecLinkData,RecLinkData'
x %append% y
## S4 method for signature 'RecLinkResult,RecLinkResult'
x %append% y
Arguments
x , y |
The objects to combine. |
Value
An object with class corresponding to the input objects which represents
the concatenation of x
and y
. Its
component pairs
is rbind(x$pairs, y$pairs)
. If both x
and y
have weights stored in component Wdata
, the result
gets c(x$Wdata, y$Wdata)
as component Wdata
. For the
"RecLinkResult"
method, the result also includes the
concatenation of the predicted classes in x
and y
as
component prediction
.
Note
The methods perform only a minimum of integrity checks, so the user has to make sure that the underlying data, the formats of comparison patterns (e.g. excluded columns) and the type of weights (method and parameters of weight calculation) match.
Author(s)
Andreas Borg, Murat Sariyar
Examples
data(RLdata500)
rpairs1=compare.dedup(RLdata500, blockfld=1, identity = identity.RLdata500)
rpairs2=compare.dedup(RLdata500, blockfld=3, identity = identity.RLdata500)
summary(rpairs1)
summary(rpairs2)
summary(rpairs1 %append% rpairs2)