gen_alternative_terms {restatis}

gen_alternative_terms

Description

Function to find search terms that are similar or related to one another in spelling and also represented in the GENESIS, Zensus 2022 or regionalstatistik.de databases. Important note: The API call is searching for terms with the same characters. To be useful in searching for related terms it is highly recommended to work with "*" placeholders (see examples). The placeholder can be placed before and/or after the search term.

Usage

gen_alternative_terms(
  term = NULL,
  similarity = TRUE,
  database = c("all", "genesis", "zensus", "regio"),
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

term

Character string. Maximum length of 15 characters. Term or word for which you are searching for alternative or related terms. Use of '*' as a placeholder is possible to generate broader search areas.

similarity

Boolean. Indicator if the output of the function should be sorted based on a Levenshtein edit distance based on the adist() function. Default is 'TRUE'.

database

Character string. Indicator if the GENESIS ('genesis'), Zensus 2022 ('zensus') or regionalstatistik.de ('regio') database is called. Default option is 'all'.

verbose

Boolean. Indicator if the output of the function should include detailed messages and warnings. Default option is 'TRUE'. Set the parameter to 'FALSE' to suppress additional messages and warnings.

...

Additional parameters for the API call. These parameters are only affecting the call itself, no further processing. For more details see vignette("additional_parameter").

Value

A list with all recollected elements from the respective database. Attributes are added to the data.frame, describing the search configuration for the returned output.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Find terms at GENESIS that are the same (in spelling) to search term "bus"
# and sort them by Levenshtein edit distance
object <- gen_alternative_terms(term = "bus", similarity = TRUE, database = "genesis")

# Find terms at GENESIS that are related (in spelling) to search term "bus"
object <- gen_alternative_terms(term = "bus*", similarity = TRUE, database = "genesis")

# Find terms at Zensus 2022 that are related (in spelling) to search term "wohn"
object <- gen_alternative_terms(term = "wohn*", similarity = TRUE, database = "zensus")

## End(Not run)