cleanUpNames {petersenlab} | R Documentation |
Clean Up Player Names For Merging.
Description
Cleans up names of players for merging.
Usage
cleanUpNames(name)
Arguments
name |
character vector of player names. |
Details
Cleans up names of NFL Football players, including making them all-caps, removing common suffixes, punctuation, spaces, etc. This is helpful for merging multiple datasets.
Value
Vector of cleaned player names.
Examples
oldNames <- c("Peyton Manning","Tom Brady","Marvin Harrison Jr.")
cleanNames <- cleanUpNames(oldNames)
cleanNames
[Package petersenlab version 1.1.0 Index]