Package: placematchr
Title: Normalize and Match City Names to NUTS Regions
Version: 0.2.4
Date: 2026-03-06
Authors@R: person("Giulian", "Etingin-Frati", email = "etingin-frati@kof.ethz.ch", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Normalizes city names for EEA countries 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: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-03-06 10:03:20 UTC; getingin
Author: Giulian Etingin-Frati [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Giulian Etingin-Frati <etingin-frati@kof.ethz.ch>
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-03-06 10:30:02 UTC
Built: R 4.5.3; ; 2026-04-16 03:22:22 UTC; windows
