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KOR.addrlink (version 1.0.1)

sanitize_street: Clean Steet Names And Make Them Mergeable

Description

This function replaces Umlauts, expands "str" to "strasse", transliterates all non-ascii characters, removes punctuation and converts to lower case.

Usage

sanitize_street(x)

Value

A character vector of the same length as x containing the sanitized street names.

Arguments

x

A character vector containing the steet names

Author

Daniel Schürmann

Details

This is an internal function used in addrlink. Make sure house numbers have already been extracted. Use split_number or split_address for that. Only steet names can go into sanitize_street.

See Also

split_address, split_number, addrlink