Postal address parsing in R

Author: Oliver Keyes, Al Barrentine
License: MIT
Status: Stable

Description

libpostal is a postal address parser written in C - and poster is a wrapper around it, allowing you to parse and normalise addresses from R.

It contains, amongst other things:

• An address normaliser;
• An address parser;
• Extractors for individual elements of addresses, from house numbers to countries.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Installation

Poster isn't on CRAN (they don't like dependencies they don't have) but it is stable. To get it:

devtools::install_github("ironholds/poster")

Note, of course, the dependencies, and make sure you have libpostal installed first.

Dependencies

• R. Doy.
• Rcpp
• libpostal