Export to_alias

[jdhoffa]

Closes #157

[maurolepore]

Thanks @jdhoffa and @vintented. It's great to see that the package is useful and you want more features.

@jdhoffa,

Would exporting to_alias() solve @vintented's need? Or is he asking for match_name() to gain the argument remove_ownership?

[jdhoffa]

@maurolepore I think both are actually desirable.
For his purposes, the flexibility of connecting a call to to_alias to a call to score_alias_similarity is enough I think.

That said, we need to be careful and remember that the number 1 purpose of match_name is still the banks work (at this stage anyway)

[jdhoffa]

(So we should be careful to not make match_name to general. We want to have a very simple workflow for the banks work. Once that is achieved we can begin to export underlying functions for use by our analysts.)
Remember this is the conversation we had a long while ago, when Klaus and I disagreed. Me saying that more flexibility is desirable for 2DII analysts, him saying that more clear wrappers and simplicty is desirable for the banks. I think finding this balance might be tricky.

[maurolepore]

For his purposes, the flexibility of connecting a call to to_alias to a call to score_alias_similarity is enough I think.

Does this mean we need to also export score_alias_similarity()? Or for now should we encourage users of to_alias() to score similarity themselves directly with stringsim::stringdist() (in this case they would also need to handle sector themselves)?