soundexFR: French Soundex Encoding

In SciencePo: Political Behaviour Analysis Tool

Description

Soundex will return the Census Soundex Code for the given Francophone string. The Soundex code consists of up to 4 characters long. The integer refinement will return an integer code value instead.

Usage

soundexFR(term)

Arguments

term	is the vector with character strings.

Value

A character vector or matrix with the same dimensions as term.

Note

This function is an adaptation of the US census soundex version. See in http://www.archives.gov/research/census/soundex.html

Author(s)

Daniel Marcelino

References

Borg, Andreas and Murat Sariyar. (2012) RecordLinkage: Record Linkage in R, R package version 0.4-1, http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RecordLinkage.

See Also

soundexBR,soundexES.

Examples

soundexFR(x <- c('Jean Charest', 'John Charest',
	'James Charest', 'John James Charest'))

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