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Address parsing and normalisation through libpostal
https://github.com/Ironholds/poster

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Address parsing and normalisation through libpostal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Ironholds/poster
• Owner: Ironholds
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-03-21T19:28:00.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-22T02:33:32.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-21T05:36:19.223Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C++
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• Size: 63.5 KB
• Stars: 59
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## Postal address parsing in R

__Author:__ Oliver Keyes, Al Barrentine 


__License:__ [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)


__Status:__ Stable

### Description

[libpostal](https://github.com/openvenues/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](https://github.com/Ironholds/poster/blob/master/CONDUCT.md).

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](https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal)

installed first.

###Dependencies

* R. Doy.

* [Rcpp](https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rcpp)

* [libpostal](https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal)