R: Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

makeBlockingPairs {RecordLinkage} | R Documentation

## Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

### Description

Create record pairs from blocks of ids.

### Usage

    makeBlockingPairs(id_vec)

### Arguments

`id_vec` | A list of integer vectors.

### Details

Each element in `id_vec` holds the ids of a set of records which agree for a particular blocking variable (see `compare.dedup` for the blocking mechanism). For each block, all unordered pairs of the ids are created and concatenated in the output.

### Value

A matrix with two columns, each row holding the ids of one record pair.

### Note

Internal function used by `compare.dedup`.

### Author(s)

Andreas Borg

[Package RecordLinkage version 0.4-12.2 Index]