fix_typos() standardizes a character vector for use in extractMemberName() by applying some heuristic processing, setting all text to lowercase and, optionally, removing common typos if a list of such is supplied.
Usage
fix_typos(x, typos = legislators::typos, fix_ocr = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)Arguments
- x
a character vector containing the names of congress members.
- typos
a matrix or data frame containing common typos and their corrections. Should be a 2-column matrix where the first column contains regular expressions corresponding to typos and the second column contain the values that should replace them. These are passed to the
patternandreplacementarguments ofstringr::str_replace_all(). By default, the typos dataset that accompanies the package is used. IfNULL, no typos will be fixed.- fix_ocr
logical; whether to fix OCR errors.- verbose
logical; whether to display information about the process of fixing typos, including a progress bar.