rijpma/capelinker

Functions and models for record linkage in historical South Africa # capelinker `capelinker` is an R library facilitating a supervised machine learning approach to link families and individuals in historical South Africa. It provides helper functions and a number of pretrained models. ## Installation Capelinker is not on CRAN and needs to be installed from GitHub. The `remotes` package makes this easy. ``` library("remotes") remotes::install_github("rijpma/capelinker") ``` ## Usage 1. Use `preflight()` to check whether the datasets are ready to link. 2. Make candidate links using `candidates()` 3. Calculate distances between candidate pairs using `distcalc()`. 4. Train your own model or use pretrained models to predict links.