meta_rename: Replaces names by reference to a metadata dataframe

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Replaces names by reference to a metadata dataframe

Description

'meta_rename' allows fast replacement of variable names by key-value pairing with a metadata file.

Usage

meta_rename(df, metadata, old, new)

Arguments

df	A data.frame object for renaming.
metadata	A data.frame object containing the key-value pair
old	An unquoted string of the key column name in the metadata object
new	An unquoted string of the value column name in the metadata object

Value

'data.frame' object with new names as per key-value pairs.

Examples

testdata <-  tibble(a = 0L,
b = 0L,
c = 0L)

meta <-  tibble(DatasetPositon = 1:3,
                VariableID =	letters[1:3],
                VariableType = "integer",
                VariableLabel = c("item1", "item2", "item3"),
                ItemText = c("This is item 1",
                             "This is item 2",
                             "This is item 3")
)

meta_rename(testdata, metadata = meta, old = VariableID, new = VariableLabel)

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