| general_clean_directory_plain {podcleaner} | R Documentation |
Mutate operation(s) in Scottish post office general directory data.frame column(s)
Description
Attempts to clean the provided Scottish post office general directory data.frame.
Usage
general_clean_directory_plain(directory, verbose)
Arguments
directory |
A Scottish post office general directory in the form
of a data.frame or other object that inherits from the data.frame class
such as a |
verbose |
Whether the function should be executed silently ( |
Value
A data.frame of the same class as the one provided in directory;
columns include at least forename, surname, occupation,
address.trade.number, address.trade.body, address.house.number and
address.house.body. "house" suffix in occupation column is move to
addresses, occupation information is repatriated from addresses to
occupation column; addresses is split into trade and house address
column; additional records are created for each extra trade address
identified. Entries are further cleaned of optical character recognition
(OCR) errors and subject to a number of standardisation operations.