The Phonex name coding procedure.
phonex(word, maxCodeLen = 4, clean = TRUE)| word | string or vector of strings to encode |
|---|---|
| maxCodeLen | maximum length of the resulting encodings, in characters |
| clean | if |
the Phonex encoded character vector
The variable word is the name to be encoded. The variable
maxCodeLen is the limit on how long the returned name code
should be. The default is 4.
The phonex algorithm is only defined for inputs over the
standard English alphabet, i.e., "A-Z," "Ä," "Ö," "Ü," and
"ß." Non-alphabetical characters are removed from the string in a
locale-dependent fashion. This strips spaces, hyphens, and numbers.
Other letters, such as "ç," may be permissible in the current locale
but are unknown to phonex. For inputs outside of its known
range, the output is undefined and NA is returned and a
warning this thrown. If clean is FALSE,
phonex attempts to process the strings. The default is
TRUE.
James P. Howard, II, "Phonetic Spelling Algorithm Implementations for R," Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 25, no. 8, (2020), p. 1--21, <10.18637/jss.v095.i08>.
A.J. Lait and Brian Randell. "An assessment of name matching algorithms." Technical Report Series-University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Computing Science (1996).
Other phonics:
caverphone(),
cologne(),
lein(),
metaphone(),
mra_encode(),
nysiis(),
onca(),
phonics(),
rogerroot(),
soundex(),
statcan()
phonex("William")
#> [1] "W450"
phonex(c("Peter", "Peady"))
#> [1] "B360" "B300"
phonex("Stevenson", maxCodeLen = 8)
#> [1] "S3152500"