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crimelinkage (version 0.0.4)

compareCategorical: Make evidence variables from categorical crime data

Description

Compares categorical crime data to check if they match.

Usage

compareCategorical(C1, C2, levs, binary = FALSE)

Arguments

C1
length n categorical values of crime attributes
C2
length n categorical values of crime attributes
levs
the levels of all possible values
binary
(logical) match/no match or all combinations

Value

if binary=TRUE: 1 for match, 0 for non-matches; if binary=FALSE: factor vector of merged values (in form of f1:f2)