trades_clean_directory_plain {podcleaner}

Mutate operation(s) in Scottish post office trades directory data.frame column(s)

Description

Attempts to clean the provided Scottish post office trades directory data.frame.

Usage

trades_clean_directory_plain(directory, verbose)

Arguments

directory

A Scottish post office trades directory in the form of a data.frame or other object that inherits from the data.frame class such as a tibble. Columns must at least include forename, surname, ⁠occupation``address.trade.number⁠ and address.trade.body.

verbose

Whether the function should be executed silently (FALSE) or not (TRUE).

Value

A data.frame of the same class as the one provided in directory; columns include at least forename, surname, occupation, address.trade.number and address.trade.body. Entries are cleaned of optical character recognition (OCR) errors and subject to a number of standardisation operations.