expand_abbrev

Create or use a named vector (<code>c("abb" = "rep")</code>) and pass it to
<code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_replace.html">stringr::str_replace_all()</a></code>. The <code>abb</code> argument is surrounded with <code>\\b</code>
to capture only isolated abbreviations. To be used inside
<code>normal_address()</code> and <code>normal_city()</code> with usps_street and usps_city,
respectively.

Explore and normalize American campaign finance
data. Created by the Investigative Reporting Workshop to facilitate
work on The Accountability Project, an effort to collect public data
into a central, standard database that is more easily searched:
<https://publicaccountability.org/>.

Kiernan Nicholls

campfin

Wrangle Campaign Finance Data

Investigative Reporting Workshop 

Yanqi Xu

Schuyler Erle

expand_abbrev function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>A vector containing abbreviations.</dd>
<dt>abb</dt>
<dd>One of three objects: (1) A dataframe with abbreviations in the
first column and corresponding replacement strings in the second
column; (2) a named vector, with abbreviations as names for their
respective replacements (e.g., <code>c("abb" = "rep")</code>); or (3) an unnamed
vector of abbreviations with an unnamed vector of replacements in the <code>rep</code>
argument.</dd>
<dt>rep</dt>
<dd>If <code>abb</code> is an unnamed vector, a vector of replacement strings for
each abbreviation in <code>abb</code>.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Create or use a named vector (<code>c("abb" = "rep")</code>) and pass it to
<code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_replace.html'>stringr::str_replace_all()</a></code>. The <code>abb</code> argument is surrounded with <code>\\b</code>
to capture only isolated abbreviations. To be used inside
<code>normal_address()</code> and <code>normal_city()</code> with usps_street and usps_city,
respectively.

Expand Abbreviations — expand_abbrev

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>A vector containing abbreviations.</dd>


<dt>abb</dt>
<dd>One of three objects: (1) A dataframe with abbreviations in the
first column and corresponding replacement strings in the second
column; (2) a named vector, with abbreviations as names for their
respective replacements (e.g., <code>c("abb" = "rep")</code>); or (3) an unnamed
vector of abbreviations with an unnamed vector of replacements in the <code>rep</code>
argument.</dd>


<dt>rep</dt>
<dd>If <code>abb</code> is an unnamed vector, a vector of replacement strings for
each abbreviation in <code>abb</code>.</dd>

</dl>

expand_abbrev: Expand Abbreviations

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