makeBlockingPairs {RecordLinkage}R Documentation

Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

Description

Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

Usage

makeBlockingPairs(id_vec)

Arguments

id_vec

A list of integer vectors.

Details

Each element in id_vec holds the ids of a set of records which agree for a particular blocking variable (see compare.dedup for the blocking mechanism). For each block, all unordered pairs of the ids are created and concatenated in the output.

Value

A matrix with two columns, each row holding the ids of one record pair.

Note

Internal function used by compare.dedup.

Author(s)

Andreas Borg


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