name.move_suffix: Move provided suffixes to separate column (and remove suffix...

In dads2busy/dataplumbr: Helpful Data Plumbing/Engineering Functions

Description

Move provided suffixes to separate column (and remove suffix from name column).

Usage

name.move_suffix(df, name_field, suffix_list, return_type = "dt")

Arguments

df	A data.frame or data.table with a suffix containing name column.
name_field	Name of the name column/field.
suffix_list	A list of suffixes to move.
return_type	Type of data object to return, "dt" (data.table) or "df" (data.frame). Default "dt".

Examples

names <- data.frame(name = c("Bob, Jr", "Dallas III", "Willy"))
names <- name.move_suffix(names, "name", list("Jr", "III"))
names
   name suffix
1  Bob,     Jr
2  Dallas    III
3  Willy   <NA>

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