R: Reformat Reversed Names

format_reverse {humaniformat} | R Documentation

## Reformat Reversed Names

### Description

a common pattern for names is 'Lastname Suffix, Salutation Firstname' - or to put that more practically, 'Jeffries PhD, Mr Bernard'. `format_reverse` takes these reversed names and reformats them to a form that `parse_names` can handle.

### Usage

    format_reverse(names)

### Arguments

`names` | a vector of names following this convention. Names that lack commas will be returned entirely intact, so assuming you don't have (legitimate) commas in names not following this format, there's no need to worry if your vector has mixed formatting.

### Value

a vector containing the reformatted names

### See Also

`parse_names`, which works more reliably if reversed names have been reformatted, and `format_period` for period-separated names.

### Examples

    # Take a reversed name and un-reverse it
    format_reverse("Keyes, Oliver")

[Package humaniformat version 0.6.0 Index]