cleanUpNames: Clean Up Player Names For Merging.
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cleanUpNames R Documentation
Clean Up Player Names For Merging.
Description
Cleans up names of players for merging.
Usage
cleanUpNames(name)
Arguments
name
character vector of player names.
Details
Cleans up names of NFL Football players, including making them all-caps,
removing common suffixes, punctuation, spaces, etc. This is helpful for
merging multiple datasets.
Value
Vector of cleaned player names.
Examples
oldNames <- c("Peyton Manning","Tom Brady","Marvin Harrison Jr.")
cleanNames <- cleanUpNames(oldNames)
cleanNames
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Clean Up Player Names For Merging.
Description
Cleans up names of players for merging.
Usage
cleanUpNames(name)
Arguments
name |
character vector of player names. |
Details
Cleans up names of NFL Football players, including making them all-caps, removing common suffixes, punctuation, spaces, etc. This is helpful for merging multiple datasets.
Value
Vector of cleaned player names.
Examples
oldNames <- c("Peyton Manning","Tom Brady","Marvin Harrison Jr.")
cleanNames <- cleanUpNames(oldNames)
cleanNames
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