addr

Addresses that were not validated at the time of collection are often heterogenously formatted, making them difficult to directly compare. The goal of addr is to clean, parse, standardize, and match messy, real-world addresses in R to use for data linkages. addr is built around vctrs-based addr vectors, including the addr() vector and the addr_number(), addr_street(), and addr_place() subclass vectors.

Installation

Install the latest stable release of addr from R-universe with:

install.packages("addr", repos = c("https://geomarker-io.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Or, install the development version of addr from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("cole-brokamp/addr")

Installing addr from GitHub requires a working Rust toolchain; install one using rustup.

Using

addr vectors behave like standard R vectors: they recycle, subset, and combine with vctrs tooling. You can parse text into an addr vector with as_addr() or build one from its subclass vectors with addr().

addr_vec <- as_addr(c("3333 Burnet Ave Cincinnati OH 45229",
                      "5130 Rapid Run Rd Cincinnati OH 45238"))