Cleans the storm dataset to prepare for further processing. This includes changing all variable names to lowercase, removing some unneeded columns, and removing the narratives if requested by the user.
Arguments
- storm_data
A dataset of storm data. This dataset must include certain columns given in the NOAA Storm Events datasets for which this package was created.
- include_narratives
A logical value for whether the final data data frame should include columns for episode and event narratives (TRUE) or not (FALSE, the default)