clean_names: Clean Names

In KO112/KO: Kevin O'Brien's Personal Package

Description

Clean names so that quotes (or backquotes) will not be necessary when subsetting the object.
The names input will be cleaned by replacing all occurrences of:

• $ with "Dollar" (or "Dol", if short == TRUE)

• % with "Percent" (or "Perc", if short == TRUE)

• Any other non-word character (i.e. character not in [a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _]) with "_"

Usage

clean_names(vec, short = FALSE)

Arguments

vec	A character vector of names to clean.
short	Whether to shorten certain cleaned name replacements (logical scalar).

Value

A character vector of cleaned names.

Examples

clean_names(c("apple", "banana", "ab.cd", "ef_gh", "ij/kl", "a_%_b", "a_$_b", "mn__op"))
clean_names(c("a_%_b", "a_$_b"), short = FALSE)

KO112/KO documentation built on Oct. 2, 2020, 9:21 a.m.