epi_clean_make_names: Check and correct strings which are not syntactically valid...

In AntonioJBT/episcout: Quickly Clean, Explore and Visualise Large Epidemiological Datasets

Check and correct strings which are not syntactically valid or reserved

Description

epi_clean_make_names() Pass a string vector such as column headers, check they are valid names and if not correct. Saves some headaches downstream when trying to plot non-syntactically valid column headers for example.

Usage

epi_clean_make_names(string = "", str_replacement = "_", unique = TRUE)

Arguments

string	String with names to test
str_replacement	string to use instead of the '.' from make.names() Default is '_'.
unique	make.names() unique parameter. Default is TRUE.

Value

A list of corrected and valid strings.

Author(s)

Antonio Berlanga-Taylor <\url{https://github.com/AntonioJBT/episcout}>

See Also

make.names, stackoverflow test if valid, r-bloggers test valid names.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(stringr)
string <- c('mean', '.j_j', '...', 'if',
'while', 'TRUE', 'NULL', '_jj',
'  j', '.2way')
valid_names <- epi_clean_make_names(string)
valid_names
epi_clean_make_names(valid_names) # There shouldn't be anything to correct

## End(Not run)

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