This function combines custom and standard entity datasets, handling the case
where one or both might be empty, and removes duplicates.
Usage
merge_entities(
custom_entities,
standard_entities,
primary_term,
primary_type = "disease",
verbose = TRUE
)
Arguments
- custom_entities
Data frame of custom entities (can be NULL)
- standard_entities
Data frame of standard entities (can be NULL)
- primary_term
The primary term of interest
- primary_type
The entity type of the primary term (default: "disease")
- verbose
Logical; if TRUE, print status messages (default: TRUE)
Value
A data frame of combined entities
