R: Fold a fingerprint

fold {fingerprint} | R Documentation

## Fold a fingerprint

### Description

In many situations a fingerprint is generated using a large length (such as 1024 bits or more). As a result of this, the fingerprints for a dataset can be very sparse. One approach to increasing bit density of such fingerprints is to fold them. This is performed by dividing the original fingerprint bitstring into two substrings of equal length and then perform an OR on the two substrings.

It should be noted that many fingerprint generating routines will perform this internally.

### Usage

    fold(fp)

### Arguments

`fp` | The fingerprint to fold. Should be of class `fingerprint`.

### Value

An object of class `fingerprint` representing the folded fingerprint.

### Author(s)

Rajarshi Guha rguha@indiana.edu

### Examples

    # make a fingerprint vector
    fp <- new("fingerprint", nbit=64, bits=sample(1:64, 30))
    fold(fp)

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