Vectorised compound-name comparator

The comparator object passed to reclin2::compare_pairs() for the surname field. Applies compare_two_names() pairwise over two equal-length character vectors.

Usage

compare_last_names(names1, names2)

Arguments

names1, names2

Character vectors of equal length.

Value

A numeric vector of similarities in [0, 1].

Examples

compare_last_names(c("MCLANE", "SMITH"), c("MC-LANE", "SMYTHE"))
#> [1] 1.0000000 0.6444444