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cleanUpNames: Clean Up Player Names For Merging.

Description

Cleans up names of players for merging.

Usage

cleanUpNames(name)

Value

Vector of cleaned player names.

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.

Examples

Run this code
oldNames <- c("Peyton Manning","Tom Brady","Marvin Harrison Jr.")
cleanNames <- cleanUpNames(oldNames)
cleanNames

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