sanitize: Clean Column Names or Character Vectors by Removing Special...

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Clean Column Names or Character Vectors by Removing Special Characters

Description

This function can operate on either a data frame or a character vector:

• Data frame: Detects columns whose names contain any character that is not a letter, number, or underscore, removes colons, replaces slashes with underscores, and spaces with underscores.

• Character vector: Applies the same cleaning rules to every element of the vector.

Usage

sanitize(x)

Arguments

x	A data frame or character vector to be cleaned.

Value

• If x is a data frame: returns a data frame with cleaned column names.

• If x is a character vector: returns a character vector with cleaned elements.

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