Detect Presence of Prefix or Suffix Directionals

Determine the presence of house numbersin a string.

pm_streetDir_detect(.data, dictionary, locale = "us")

Arguments

.data	A postmastr object created with pm_prep
dictionary	Optional; A tbl created with pm_dictionary to be used as a master list of directionals. If none is provided, the dic_us_dir object will be used as the default dictionary when locale = "us".
locale	A string indicating the country these data represent; the only current option is "us" but this is included to facilitate future expansion.

Value

A tibble with a new logical variable pm.hasDir that is TRUE if a directional is found in the first or last word of the address and FALSE otherwise.

Details

If a street name is also a directional, like North Ave, it will be identified as such. See pm_streetDir_parse and pm_streetSuf_parse for additional details on how these addresses are handled.