format_colnames: Format column names
In DanielGardiner/EpiFunc: Epidemiology Functions

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

Format column names

1	format_colnames(data)

data

a data.frame

Daniel Gardiner (daniel.gardiner@phe.gov.uk)

set dummy data with horrible column names

data = data.frame(t1 = 1, t2 = 1, t3 = 1, t4 = 1, t5 = 1)

colnames(data) = c("Col_$%1", "2Col2", "Column number 3....",
                   "Col___4  ", "Col!!!!!!!!!!5")

# look at data

data

# apply function

format_colnames(data)