R: Class "RLResult"

RLResult-class {RecordLinkage} | R Documentation

## Class "RLResult"

### Description

A class that represents the result of a record linkage procedure with big data sets.

### Objects from the Class

Objects from this class are created by the classification functions in this package, e.g. `classifySupv`. Directly creating instances by calling `new` is neither necessary nor recommended.

### Slots

`data`:

  Object of class `"RLBigData"`. The data set which was classified.

`prediction`:

  Object of class `"ff"`. A vector with classification result for every record pair, coded by levels `"N"` for a non-link, `"P"` for a possible link and `"L"` for a link.

### Methods

clone

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

getDbFile

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

getErrorMeasures

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

getPairs

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

getTable

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

saveRLObject

  `signature(object = "RLResult")`

### Note

The slot `data` uses a database to store data and create comparison patterns, thus assignment of a `"RLResult"` object to a different variable can lead to undesired results. Use `clone` to make a distinct copy. Similarly, the standard save mechanism does not work; `saveRLObject` and `loadRLObject` are provided to make objects persistent over different R sessions.

### Author(s)

Andreas Borg, Murat Sariyar

### See Also

`classifySupv`, `emClassify` and `epiClassify` create objects of this type.

[Package RecordLinkage version 0.4-12.2 Index]