SciencesPo (version 0.05.21)

soundexES: Spanish Soundex Encoding

Description

soundexES returns a census-like soundex code a string name, given the Spanish sound system. This function was firstly outlined to work with RecordLinkage package, however, it also is helpful as a standalone function. See details bellow.

Usage

soundexES(term)

Arguments

term

is the vector with character strings.

Value

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

encoding

UTF-8

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, soundexFR .

Examples

soundexES(x <- c('Alejandro Angel Tapias', 'Alejandro Tápias',
'Alejandro A. Tapias', 'Alexander Angel Tápias',
'Alexandre Angel Tapias'))