remove_names: Remove Patterns from Column Names or Variables

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Remove Patterns from Column Names or Variables

Description

Modifies column names or specified variables in a data frame by replacing specified patterns with empty strings or spaces.

Usage

remove_names(
  input_df,
  variable = "colnames",
  patterns_to_na = patterns_to_na,
  patterns_space = NULL
)

Arguments

input_df	Data frame. Input data to modify.
variable	Character. Column to modify: "colnames" for column names, or a specific column name. Default is "colnames".
patterns_to_na	Character vector. Patterns to replace with empty string. Default uses [patterns_to_na].
patterns_space	Character vector or 'NULL'. Patterns to replace with spaces. Default is 'NULL'.

Value

Modified data frame with patterns replaced.

Author(s)

Dongqiang Zeng

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  "CellA_cibersort" = 1:5,
  "CellB_xCell" = 6:10,
  "CellC_TIMER" = 11:15
)
result <- remove_names(df, variable = "colnames", patterns_to_na = patterns_to_na)
colnames(result)

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