simplifyName: Simplify customer name

In 2DegreesInvesting/pacta: Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment

Description

Takes customer name and simplifies it by converting to lower case; converting to latin-ascii characters; converting ownership types to standard abbreviations.

Usage

simplifyName(name, cut.ownership = FALSE,
  reduction = pacta::data.name.reductions,
  ownership = pacta::data.ownership.types)

Arguments

name	text string to simplify
cut.ownership	flag that defines whether ownership type (like llc) should be cut-off from name during simplification
reduction	data frame with reduction rules to be applied, contains columns From (for initial values) and To (for resulting values)
ownership	vector of company ownership types to be disctinguished for cut-off or separation

Value

Character string with simplified name

Examples

simplifyName("Acuity Brands Inc")
simplifyName(c("3M Company", "Abbott Laboratories", "AbbVie Inc.", "Accenture plc"))

2DegreesInvesting/pacta documentation built on June 17, 2019, 12:04 p.m.