check_pname: Check that newly created variable names don't overlap

In cmu-delphi/epipredict: Basic epidemiology forecasting methods

Check that newly created variable names don't overlap

Description

check_pname is to be used in a slather method to ensure that newly created variable names don't overlap with existing names. Throws an warning if check fails, and creates a random string.

Usage

check_pname(res, preds, object, newname = NULL)

Arguments

res	A data frame or tibble of the newly created variables.
preds	An epi_df or tibble containing predictions.
object	A layer object passed to slather().
newname	A string of variable names if the object doesn't contain a $name element

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