credo.companycode_old: Recodes Mutual Fund Company Names in Canada from Verbatim...
In credoinc/credoc: Credo Consulting Convenience Functions

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

This function takes a character vector or factor, and recodes misspelled words into the corrected company names. Uses pre-programmed find and replace.

1	credo.companycode_old(verbatim, hold.na = FALSE, other = TRUE)

`verbatim`	A character vector or factor to be recoded
`hold.na`	Logical, maintain NA values to keep ordering
`other`	convert unmatched to "Other" or leave as is

m A list containing recoded factors ($verbatims) and unmatched values ($unmatched)

Trim functionality courtesy of f3lix: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2261149/170352

verbatim <- c("CI","bmo","cibc","renaisance","vpi",NA,"Aim","why")
credo.companycode(verbatim)
credo.companycode(verbatim, TRUE)
credo.companycode(verbatim, TRUE, FALSE)