general_clean_directory: Mutate operation(s) in Scottish post office general directory...
In podcleaner: Legacy Scottish Post Office Directories Cleaner

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Attempts to clean the provided Scottish post office general directory data.frame.

1	general_clean_directory(directory, progress = TRUE, verbose = FALSE)

`directory`	A Scottish post office general directory in the form of a data.frame or other object that inherits from the data.frame class such as a `tibble`. Columns must at least include `forename`, `surname`, `occupation` and `addresses`.
`progress`	Whether progress should be shown (`TRUE`) or not (`FALSE`).
`verbose`	Whether the function should be executed silently (`FALSE`) or not (`TRUE`).

A tibble; columns include at least forename, surname, occupation, address.trade.number, address.trade.body, address.house.number and address.house.body. "house" suffix in occupation column is move to addresses, occupation information is repatriated from addresses to occupation column; addresses is split into trade and house address columns; additional records are created for each extra trade address identified. Entries are further cleaned of optical character recognition (OCR) errors and subject to a number of standardisation operations.

pages <- rep("71", 2L)
surnames <- c("ABOT", "ABRCROMBIE")
forenames <- c("Wm.", "Alex")
occupations <- c("Wine and spirit mercht - See Advertisement in Appendix.", "")
addresses = c(
  "1S20 Londn rd; ho. 13<J Queun sq",
  "Bkr; I2 Dixon Street, & 29 Auderstn Qu.; res 2G5 Argul st."
)
directory <- tibble::tibble(
  page = pages, surname = surnames, forename = forenames,
  occupation = occupations, addresses = addresses
)
general_clean_directory(directory, progress = TRUE, verbose = FALSE)