Standardize Names — standardize_names • AnnotationGx

This function takes a character vector and standardizes the names by converting them to lowercase, removing any trailing information after a comma, removing any information within square brackets or parentheses, removing any non-alphanumeric characters, replacing empty names with "invalid", and converting the names to uppercase.

Usage

standardize_names(object)

Arguments

object: A character vector containing the names to be standardized.

Value

A character vector with the standardized names.

Examples

standardize_names(c("John Doe", "Jane Smith (Manager)", "Alice, PhD"))
#> [1] "JOHNDOE"   "JANESMITH" "ALICE"    
# Output: [1] "JOHNDOE" "JANESMITH" "ALICE"