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placematchr

Normalize and Match City Names to NUTS Regions

v0.2.4 · Mar 6, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

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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>).

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr stringr stringdist data.table tidyr rlang placematchr

Version History

3 tracked
new 0.2.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.4 ← 0.2.3 diff Mar 5, 2026
new 0.2.3 Feb 10, 2026