namepref: Add variable name prefix (with substitution)

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Add variable name prefix (with substitution)

Description

This function strips the old prefix from the variable names of the dataframe. It then adds the new prefix where the old one was and changes the dataframe's names to the new ones.

Usage

namepref(dataframe, pref_old, pref_new)

Arguments

dataframe	A dataframe
pref_old	Old prefix character that some or all variables in the dataframe have
pref_new	New prefix character to replace the old one

Value

Returns dataframe with those variables renamed that start with the old prefix.

Examples

bla <- tibble::tibble(x_ar = 1:5, y_ar = 6:10)
blo <- namepref(bla, "x_", "z_")
names(bla)
names(blo)

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