std_names: Parse Investigator Names and Remove (Most) Non-Alphabetical...

In jesse-smith/coviData: COVID-19 Data Munging Tools for the Shelby County Health Department

Parse Investigator Names and Remove (Most) Non-Alphabetical Characters

Description

std_names() is designed to parse names of individuals into a standard format. It:

1. Replaces square brackets and curly braces with parentheses

2. Removes parenthetic expressions

3. Removes ordinal and numeric expressions

4. Removes symbols (replaces all except apostrophes with a space)

5. Removes extraneous whitespace

6. Converts to the desired case

Usage

std_names(string, case = c("upper", "lower", "title", "sentence"))

Arguments

string	A character vector containing investigator names
case	Case of output

Value

The input string with cleaned names

jesse-smith/coviData documentation built on Jan. 14, 2023, 11:08 a.m.