Convenience function for creating unique names from region list — add_unique_names_to_region

Names of municipalities are not always unique, especially at the CSD level. This function takes as input a subset of a regions list as generated from `list_census_regions()` and de-duplicates names as needed by adding the municipal status in parenthesis. If this does not de-duplicate the name then the geographic identifier will be further added in parenthesis behind that.

add_unique_names_to_region_list(region_list)

Arguments

region_list: a subset of a regions list as gotten from `list_census_regions()`

Value

The same list of regions with an extra column `Name` with de-duplicated names.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# This will return a warning that no match was found, but will suggest similar named regions.
library(dplyr)
list_census_regions("CA21") %>%
  filter(level=="CSD", CMA_UID=="59933") %>%
  add_unique_names_to_region_list()
}