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Clean Player Names

Source: R/z_deprecated.R
dp_clean_names.Rd

Applies some name-cleaning heuristics to facilitate joins. These heuristics may include:

  • removing periods and apostrophes

  • removing common suffixes, such as Jr, Sr, II, III, IV

  • converting to lowercase

  • using ffscrapr::dp_name_mapping to do common name substitutions, such as Mitch Trubisky to Mitchell Trubisky

Usage

dp_clean_names(...)

dp_cleannames(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed on to nflreadr::clean_player_names

player_name

a character vector of player names

lowercase

defaults to FALSE - if TRUE, converts to lowercase

convert_lastfirst

defaults to TRUE - converts names from "Last, First" to "First Last"

use_name_database

uses internal name database to do common substitutions (Mitchell Trubisky to Mitch Trubisky etc)

Value

a character vector of cleaned names

Details

Equivalent to the operation done by ffscrapr::dp_clean_names() and uses the same player name database.

See also

nflreadr::clean_player_names()

Examples

# \donttest{

dp_cleannames(c("A.J. Green", "Odell Beckham Jr.", "Le'Veon Bell Sr."))
#> Warning: `dp_clean_names()` was deprecated in ffscrapr 1.4.8.
#> ℹ Please use `nflreadr::clean_player_names()` instead.
#> [1] "AJ Green"      "Odell Beckham" "LeVeon Bell"  

dp_cleannames(c("Trubisky, Mitch", "Atwell, Chatarius", "Elliott, Zeke", "Elijah Moore"),
  convert_lastfirst = TRUE,
  use_name_database = TRUE
)
#> [1] "Mitchell Trubisky" "Tutu Atwell"       "Ezekiel Elliott"  
#> [4] "Elijah Moore"     
# }