R: Remove/Replace/Extract City, State, & Zip

rm_city_state_zip {qdapRegex}

R Documentation

Remove/Replace/Extract City, State, & Zip

Description

Remove/replace/extract city (single lower case word or multiple consecutive capitalized words before a comma and state) + state (2 consecutive capital letters) + zip code (5 digits or 5 + 4 digits) from a string.

Usage

rm_city_state_zip(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_city_state_zip", replacement = "", extract = FALSE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

ex_city_state_zip(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_city_state_zip", replacement = "", extract = TRUE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

Arguments

`text.var`	The text variable.
`trim`	logical. If `TRUE` removes leading and trailing white spaces.
`clean`	trim logical. If `TRUE` extra white spaces and escaped character will be removed.
`pattern`	A character string containing a regular expression (or character string for `fixed = TRUE`) to be matched in the given character vector. Default, `@rm_city_state_zip` uses the `rm_city_state_zip` regex from the regular expression dictionary from the `dictionary` argument.
`replacement`	Replacement for matched `pattern`.
`extract`	logical. If `TRUE` the city, state, & zip are extracted into a list of vectors.
`dictionary`	A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if `pattern` begins with `"@rm_"`.
`...`	Other arguments passed to `gsub`.

Value

Returns a character string with city, state, & zip removed.

Examples

x <- paste0("I went to Washington Heights, NY 54321 for food! ", 
   "It's in West ven,PA 12345, near Bolly Bolly Bolly, CA12345-1234!", 
   "hello world")
rm_city_state_zip(x)
ex_city_state_zip(x)