remove_extra: Remove extraneous words from actors' names
In datadrivenenvirolab/ClimActor: Data cleaning workflow for climate actor data

View source: R/cleaning_standardizing_preprocessing_functions.R

remove_extra

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Remove extraneous words from actors' names

Description

Removes extraneous words such as "council", "district", etc. from the names of actors to improve phonetic matching accuracy. See vignette for the full list of "extraneous" words.

Usage

remove_extra(dataset)

Arguments

dataset

Dataset containing actors' names

Details

It is recommended that you use this function after the fill_type() and resolve_entity_types() functions, as those functions require the presence of these "extraneous" words to be fully effective.