man_md/clean_name.md

clean_name: The clean_name() function scrubs out common artifacts in a character string of names

Usage

clean_name(name_unique)

Arguments

Argument |Description ------------- |---------------- name_unique | a character vector containing a set of names to be parsed

Value

a character vector that has symbols removed from the supplied input 'name_unique'

Examples

r # not run # library(dplyr) # name_all = c('joseph','joe','jo ',' joesephine','joseph','jo') # name_all %>% clean_name() # # name_all_unique = name_all %>% clean_name() %>% unique %>% sort # # name_all_unique %>% # # other spot check manual gsubs # gsub(.,pattern='n/a',replace='') %>% # gsub(.,pattern='N/A',replace='') %>% # gsub(.,pattern="can't answer.*",replace='') %>% # gsub(.,pattern='dk',replace='') %>% # gsub(.,pattern='^x$',replace='')



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