Compact Standard for Australian Phone Numbers

Phone numbers are often represented as strings because there is no obvious and suitable native representation for them. This leads to high memory use and a lack of standard representation. The package provides integer representation of Australian phone numbers with optional raw vector calling code. The package name is an extension of 'au' and 'ph'.

Dauphin

Decode Australian phone numbers to integers

Rationale

When dealing with mobile phone numbers in R they are often represented as character vectors. However, this comes this with two problems: (1) character vectors use excessive memory and (2) it necessitates a standard format to filter and match them.

dauphin attempts to solve these problems: using (32-bit) integer vectors to store Australian mobile and landline numbers.

library(dauphin)
mobs <- c("0407 000 123", "0407000123", "61407 000 123", "+61 407 000 123")
dauphin_mobile(mobs)

If your data contains both landline and mobile (for the same client), you can use dauphin_mobile_landline to ensure they are entered in the correct field.

dauphin_mobile_landline(c("0412 345 678", "6532 1234"), 
                        c("03 6533 4444", "0400 111 222"), 
                        default_area_code = 3)

An unexported function format_dauphin_mobile is also temporarily available for a standard character format.