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Coalesce NAME and NAMELSAD fields to fix blank NAME entries

fix_names_by_coalescing.Rd

Census TIGER/Line shapefiles have a NAME and a NAMELSAD field, but the NAME one is sometimes blank. The NAMELSAD values are often more informative. That is especially true for things like blocks and tracts. This function condenses both into NAME but doesn't remove NAMELSAD. It prefers the values from NAMELSAD, if they are different. Both NAME and NAMELSAD are removed.

Usage

fix_names_by_coalescing(.features)

Arguments

.features

any tibble with NAME and NAMELSAD features.

Value

a tibble with an additional column, "Name," and neither "NAME" nor "NAMELSAD"

Examples

data.frame(
  NAME = c("Townsville", "", NA),
  NAMELSAD = c("The City of Townsville", "Metrograd", "Locationopolis")
) |> fix_names_by_coalescing()
#>                     Name
#> 1 The City of Townsville
#> 2              Metrograd
#> 3         Locationopolis