dt_set_clean_names: Takes a data.table and set to cleaned column names

In NYPL/libbib: Various Utilities for Library Science/Assessment and Cataloging

Takes a data.table and set to cleaned column names

Description

This function takes a data.table, and returns the same data.table with column names that are cleaned and stripped of potentially troublesome names

Usage

dt_set_clean_names(DT, lower = TRUE)

Arguments

DT	a data.table
lower	A logical indicating whether all column names should be made lower case (default TRUE).

Details

All space/whitespace characters are replaced with underscores, as are all characters not from A-Z, a-z, an underscore, or a digit

Value

Returns the data.table but with cleaned names

See Also

get_clean_names

Examples

ejemplo <- as.data.table(iris)
setnames(ejemplo, c("Sepal Length", "Sepal@Width", "Petal	Length",
                    "Petal\\nWidth", "Spêcies"))
dt_set_clean_names(ejemplo)

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