replace_names: Replace First/Last Names

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Replace First/Last Names

Description

Replaces first/last names.

Usage

replace_names(
  x,
  names = textclean::drop_element(gsub("(^.)(.*)", "\\U\\1\\L\\2",
    c(lexicon::freq_last_names[[1]], lexicon::common_names), perl = TRUE),
    "^([AIU]n|[TSD]o|H[ea]Pa|Oh)$"),
  replacement = "",
  ...
)

Arguments

x	The text variable.
names	A vector of names to replace. This may be made more custom through a vector provided from a named entity extractor.
replacement	A string to replace names with.
...	Other arguments passed to replace_tokens.

Value

Returns a vector with names replaced.

Examples

x <- c(
    "Mary Smith is not here",
    "Karen is not a nice person",
    "Will will do it",
    NA
) 

replace_names(x)
replace_names(x, replacement = '<<NAME>>')

textclean documentation built on March 5, 2026, 9:06 a.m.