Prepare Data for Record Linkage Search

Turn a table into the long-format token table the matching verbs work on: it applies each column's preparation steps, splits the text into tokens, and attaches the id and any blocking columns. The other verbs (detect_duplicates(), search_candidates()) call this for you, so you rarely need it directly; reach for it when you want to see or post-process the tokens yourself.

Usage

prepare_search_data(data, id, strategy, ...)

Arguments

data

A data.frame / tibble / data.table (or db table in other backends).

id

Character scalar naming the ID column in data.

strategy

A Search_Strategy object.

...

Additional arguments passed to backend-specific methods.

Value

A long-format token table with one row per token, carrying the id, the source column, the token, a row_id, and any blocking columns.

See also

inspect_tokens() for a quick per-column look at the tokens.