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preprocText

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preprocText

Preprocess text data such as names and addresses.

preprocText(text, convert_text, tolower, soundex,
usps_address, remove_whitespace, remove_punctuation, convert_text_to)

`text`	A vector of text data to convert.
`convert_text`	Whether to convert text to the desired encoding, where the encoding is specified in the 'convert_text_to' argument. Default is TRUE
`tolower`	Whether to normalize the text to be all lowercase. Default is TRUE.
`soundex`	Whether to convert the field to the Census's soundex encoding. Default is FALSE.
`usps_address`	Whether to use USPS address standardization rules to clean address fields. Default is FALSE.
`remove_whitespace`	Whether to remove leading and trailing whitespace, and to convert multiple spaces to a single space. Default is TRUE.
`remove_punctuation`	Whether to remove punctuation from a string. Default is TRUE.
`convert_text_to`	Which encoding to use when converting text. Default is 'Latin-ASCII'. Full list of encodings in the `stri_trans_list()` function in the `stringi` package.