The goal of metaphonebr is to simplify brazilian names phonetically using a custom metaphoneBR algorithm that preserves ending vowels, created for aiding in dataset pairing in the absence of unambiguous keys.
Installation
You can install the development version of metaphonebr from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr")Example
This is a basic example which shows how to use the main function:
example_names <- c("João da Silva", "Maria", "Marya",
"Helena", "Elena", "Philippe", "Filipe", "Xavier", "Chavier")
phonetic_codes <- metaphonebr::metaphonebr(example_names)
print(data.frame(original = example_names, metaphonebr = phonetic_codes))