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placematchr: Normalize and Match City Names to NUTS Regions

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>).

Version: 0.2.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: dplyr, stringr, stringdist, data.table, tidyr, rlang
Suggests: testthat, readxl
Published: 2026-02-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.placematchr
Author: Giulian Etingin-Frati [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Giulian Etingin-Frati <etingin-frati at kof.ethz.ch>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README
CRAN checks: placematchr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: placematchr.html , placematchr.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: placematchr_0.2.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: placematchr_0.2.3.zip, r-release: placematchr_0.2.3.zip, r-oldrel: placematchr_0.2.3.zip
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