RecordLinkage (version 0.4-12.4)

summary.RLBigData: summary methods for "RLBigData" objects.

Description

Shows summarized information on a "RLBigDataDedup" or "RLBigDataDedup" object.

Usage

# S3 method for RLBigDataDedup
summary(object, ...)
  # S3 method for RLBigDataLinkage
summary(object, ...)
  # S3 method for summaryRLBigDataDedup
print(x, ...)
  # S3 method for summaryRLBigDataLinkage
print(x, ...)

Value

For summary, a list with components

nData

Only for the "RLBigDataDedup" method: Number of records in the dataset.

nData1

Only for the "RLBigDataLinkage" method: Number of records in dataset 1.

nData2

Only for the "RLBigDataLinkage" method: Number of records in dataset 2.

attributes

Column names of dataset(s).

blockFld

Blocking definition as a list of character vectors, representing column names.

nPairs

Number of record pairs

nMatches

Number of matches in the set of record pairs.

nNonMatches

Number of non-matches in the set of record pairs.

nUnkonwn

Number of record pairs with unknown matching status.

weightHist

Only if weights have been calculated for object: a summary of the weights in histogram style.

Arguments

object

The object for which to show a summary.

x

Return value of the summary function.

...

Additional arguments from the generic function are ignored.

Author

Andreas Borg, Murat Sariyar

Details

The summary methods return a list of the format shown below. The print method displays this information on the console in a user-friendly format.

Blocking fields are displayed in a style like [attr1], [attr2, attr3], where attr1 etc. are column names and attributes within brackets represent one blocking iteration. See compare.dedup or RLBigDataDedup for an explanation of blocking criteria.

See Also

summary "RLBigData" RLBigDataDedup, RLBigDataLinkage

Examples

  data(RLdata500)
  rpairs <- RLBigDataDedup(RLdata500, identity = identity.RLdata500,
     blockfld=list(1,3,5:7))
  rpairs <- epiWeights(rpairs)
  summary(rpairs)