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First Name and Last Name Comparison with Swap Detection

Source: R/cl_domain.R
cl_first_last_name.Rd

An American-English alias for cl_forename_surname(). Compares first and last name columns, including a swap-detection level for accidentally transposed names. Pass this to il_compare() on the first-name column and supply the companion last-name column via last_name.

Usage

cl_first_last_name(last_name = "last_name", term_frequency = FALSE)

Arguments

last_name

Name of the last name column in the data. Defaults to 'last_name'.

term_frequency

Logical. If TRUE, adjust match weights by name frequency at the highest comparison level. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A comparison-level object for use in il_compare().

Examples

il_spec() |>
  il_compare(first_name, cl_first_last_name())
#> Linkage Specification
#>   Comparisons (1):
#>     first_name : levels
#>   Blocking rules: (none)