standardize_names: Standardize Names

In bhklab/AnnotationGx: AnnotationGx: A package for building, updating and querying an annotation database for pharmaco-genomic data

Standardize Names

Description

This function takes a character vector and standardizes the names by converting them to lowercase, removing any trailing information after a comma, removing any information within square brackets or parentheses, removing any non-alphanumeric characters, replacing empty names with "invalid", and converting the names to uppercase.

Usage

standardize_names(object)

Arguments

object

A character vector containing the names to be standardized.

Value

A character vector with the standardized names.

Examples

standardize_names(c("John Doe", "Jane Smith (Manager)", "Alice, PhD"))
# Output: [1] "JOHNDOE" "JANESMITH" "ALICE"

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