postal_expand: postal_expand Converts messy real-world addresses into...

In Datactuariat/Rpostal: R interface to libpostal, a C library for fast international street address parsing and normalization.

Description

postal_expand Converts messy real-world addresses into normalized equivalents suitable for search indexing, hashing, etc.

Usage

postal_expand(adr, libpostal_path = "~/libpostal/src/")

Arguments

adr	string
libpostal_path	path to libpostal (default : ~/libpostal/src/)

Value

Adresses expansions

Examples

adr1 <- "Quatre vignt douze Ave des Champs-<c3><89>lys<c3><a9>es"
adr2 <- "sept rue des freres lumiere, Rueil-Malmaison"

postal_expand(adr1)
#$`Quatre vignt douze Ave des Champs-<c3><89>lys<c3><a9>es.expansions`
#[1] "92 avenue des champs-elysees" 
#[2] "92 avenue des champs elysees"
#[3] "92 avenue des champselysees" 

postal_expand(c(adr1,adr2))

Datactuariat/Rpostal documentation built on May 6, 2019, 1:54 p.m.