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In tarakc02/preprocessr: Tools to clean up messy strings

preprocessr

Tools to clean up messy strings when dealing with biographic data.

I often need to match records between data sets that have no common identifier. The most time-consuming part of this process is usually pre-processing entity identifiers (names in the same case, stripping extraneous symbols from phone numbers, etc) in order to facilitate matching. These are some functions I use in order to help with this process. Many of these functions rely heavily on the wonderful stringr package.

Installation

# install devtools if you haven't already
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tarakc02/preprocessr")

tarakc02/preprocessr documentation built on May 31, 2019, 3:55 a.m.