capitalize_remove_accents

Remove diacritics, capitalizes and remove
characters that are not letters or spaecs.

internal

Simplifies Brazilian names phonetically using a custom 'metaphoneBR' algorithm that preserves ending vowels.
Useful for name matching processing preserving gender information carried generally by ending vowels in Portuguese.
Mation (2025) <doi:10.6082/uchicago.15104>.

Rodrigo Borges

metaphonebr

Custom 'MetaphoneBR' Phonetic Encoding for Brazilian Names

Lucas Mation

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research 

capitalize_remove_accents function

<dl><dt>fullname</dt>
<dd>a character vector.</dd></dl>

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Phonetic preprocessing: removes accents, numbers and capitalizes — capitalize_remove_accents

<dl>

<dt>fullname</dt>
<dd>a character vector.</dd>

</dl>

capitalize_remove_accents: Phonetic preprocessing: removes accents, numbers and capitalizes

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