identify_differences

Compares each column within 2 datasets to identify any values which they
mismatch on.

internal

Functions for comparing two data.frames against
each other. The core functionality is to provide a detailed breakdown of any differences
between two data.frames as well as providing utility functions to help narrow down the
source of problems and differences.

Craig Gower-Page

diffdf

Dataframe Difference Tool

identify_differences function

<dl><dt>BASE</dt>
<dd>Base dataset for comparison (data.frame)</dd>
<dt>COMP</dt>
<dd>Comparator dataset to compare base against (data.frame)</dd>
<dt>KEYS</dt>
<dd>List of variables that define a unique row within the datasets (strings)</dd>
<dt>exclude_cols</dt>
<dd>Columns to exclude from comparison</dd>
<dt>tolerance</dt>
<dd>Level of tolerance for numeric differences between two variables</dd>
<dt>scale</dt>
<dd>Scale that tolerance should be set on. If NULL assume absolute</dd></dl>

Arguments

identify_differences — identify_differences

<dl>

<dt>BASE</dt>
<dd>Base dataset for comparison (data.frame)</dd>


<dt>COMP</dt>
<dd>Comparator dataset to compare base against (data.frame)</dd>


<dt>KEYS</dt>
<dd>List of variables that define a unique row within the datasets (strings)</dd>


<dt>exclude_cols</dt>
<dd>Columns to exclude from comparison</dd>


<dt>tolerance</dt>
<dd>Level of tolerance for numeric differences between two variables</dd>


<dt>scale</dt>
<dd>Scale that tolerance should be set on. If NULL assume absolute</dd>

</dl>

identify_differences: identify_differences

Description

Usage

Arguments