Ted Enamorado

Hi Katie, We are glad that you guys find fastLink of great help! We have just released version 4.0 and it is available on CRAN. When we started this project,...

Thanks so much for sharing this with us @jw2249a! This is fantastic! I am checking the new functions as we speak. I will report back soon. Re matrices vs vectors:...

Hi Stewart, Apologies for the late reply. Using the numeric comparison for geo-distances seems like more than a reasonable approach. Perhaps including a blocking stage where you only compare observations...

Hi Stewart, We are working on a function that takes lat/lon information and calculates distances using both variables. I think that would be the best approach to work with such...

Hi @AuriantEmeric, I hope all is well. Sorry for the late reply. The name reweight function takes the empirical distribution of names and basically reweights matches according to the name...

@zross, thanks for raising this issue! As @aalexandersson mentions, you are correct. I will update the help file.

Hi @paull71, As @kosukeimai mentioned, one good idea is to include the exact matches into your original data. If your dataset is around 1700 observations, I do not think that...

Thanks for letting us know! I will try to reproduce what you describe and report back.

Thanks for sharing this information with us! If you could share with us a reproducible example, that would be greatly appreciated. We have not run into such a situation before,...

Excellent! Thanks a lot for sharing this with us. I will make sure to fix the issue this weekend. As soon as a fix is pushed to GitHub, I will...