FFmatch shows how each entry in inputlist would be
matched to an available dataset by the fuzzy-matching logic inside
FFdownload. Use this to verify matches before triggering a
download, especially when dataset names are abbreviated or partially specified.
Arguments
- inputlist
character vector of (partial) dataset names to match, as you would pass to the
inputlistargument ofFFdownload.- exclude_daily
logical. If
TRUE(default), daily datasets are excluded from the candidate pool.
Value
A data frame (or tibble) with one row per entry in inputlist and
columns:
- requested
The input string as supplied.
- matched
The dataset name that would be selected by
FFdownload.- edit_distance
Raw Levenshtein edit distance between
requestedandmatched.- similarity
1 - edit_distance / nchar(matched), clamped to [0, 1]. Values below 0.3 suggest a potentially wrong match.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
FFmatch(c("Research_Data_Factors", "Momentum", "ST_Reversal"))
} # }