trim_address {easyPubMed}

Trim and Format Address Information

Description

Set of rules for trimming and standardizing the format of address information retrieved from PubMed records. Affiliations including more than one address will be trimmend and only the first address will be returned.

Usage

trim_address(addr)

Arguments

addr

Character string including an address as extracted from PubMed records.

Value

Character string including a formatted and trimmed address (if available).

Author(s)

Damiano Fantini [e-mail]

References

https://www.data-pulse.com/dev_site/easypubmed/

Examples

addr_string <- " 2 Dept of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine," 
addr_string <- paste(addr_string, "Chicago, US; Dept of Mol Bio as well...")
print(addr_string)
print(trim_address(addr = addr_string))