metaphonebr: Custom 'MetaphoneBR' Phonetic Encoding for Brazilian Names

Simplifies Brazilian names phonetically using a custom 'metaphoneBR' algorithm that preserves ending vowels. Useful for name matching processing preserving gender information carried generally by ending vowels in Portuguese. Mation (2025) <doi:10.6082/uchicago.15104>.

Version: 0.0.4
Imports: lifecycle, stringi
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-07-17
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.metaphonebr
Author: Rodrigo Borges ORCID iD [aut, cre], Pedro Cavalcanti G. Ferreira ORCID iD [aut], Lucas Mation ORCID iD [aut], Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Rodrigo Borges <rodrigoesborges at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ipeadata-lab/metaphonebr, https://ipeadata-lab.github.io/metaphonebr/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: metaphonebr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: metaphonebr.html , metaphonebr.pdf

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Package source: metaphonebr_0.0.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: metaphonebr_0.0.4.zip, r-oldrel: metaphonebr_0.0.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): metaphonebr_0.0.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): metaphonebr_0.0.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): metaphonebr_0.0.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): metaphonebr_0.0.4.tgz

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