eiCompare (version 3.0.4)

get_special_character_surnames: Gets surnames containing special characters.

Description

Returns a subsetted voter file whose rows consist of voters that have special characters in their last name.

Usage

get_special_character_surnames(
  voter_file,
  surname_col = "last_name",
  regex = "[^A-Za-z]"
)

Value

A dataframe of voters whose surname has special characters.

Arguments

voter_file

The voter file, with each row consisting of a voter.

surname_col

A string denoting the surname column.

regex

A string denoting the regular expression to use for querying the the special characters.