eq_location_clean: Cleans the location name of the raw NOAA earthquake dataset.

In raggichr/earthquakes: MSDR Capstone: Build an R Package for Earthquakes Data

Description

Cleans the (LOCATION_NAME) column by stripping out the country name (including the colon) and converts names to title case (as opposed to all caps). This will be needed later for annotating visualizations. This function should be applied to the raw data to produce a cleaned up version of the (LOCATION_NAME) column.

Usage

eq_location_clean(eq_datf)

Arguments

eq_datf

the raw NOAA earthquake dataset as a data frame that contains location names written in upper case.

Value

returns a clean data frame of the NOAA earthquake dataset.

Examples

## Not run: 
filename <- system.file("extdata", "signif.txt", package = "earthquakes")
library(readr)
eq_data_raw <- readr::read_delim(file = filename, delim = "\t")
eq_data <- eq_location_clean(eq_datf = eq_data_raw)
head(eq_data_raw$LOCATION_NAME)
head(eq_data$LOCATION_NAME)

## End(Not run)

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