Package: placematchr
Title: Normalize and Match City Names to NUTS Regions
Version: 0.2.3
Date: 2026-02-08
Authors@R: person("Giulian", "Etingin-Frati", email = "etingin-frati@kof.ethz.ch", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Normalizes city names for Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH) and matches them to NUTS 3 regions using provided crosswalks. Features include comprehensive normalization rules, cascading matching logic (Exact NUTS -> Exact LAU -> Fuzzy), and single-source data synthesis. The package implements the NUTS classification as described in the NUTS methodology (Eurostat (2021) <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts>).
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: dplyr, stringr, stringdist, data.table, tidyr, rlang
Suggests: testthat, readxl
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-02-08 23:47:07 UTC; giulianetinginfrati
Author: Giulian Etingin-Frati [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Giulian Etingin-Frati <etingin-frati@kof.ethz.ch>
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-02-11 19:50:02 UTC
Built: R 4.4.3; ; 2026-02-18 04:47:25 UTC; windows
