getNextName: Find a Deconflicted Variable Name

In dankelley/oceanglider: Analysis of Oceanographic Glider Data

Find a Deconflicted Variable Name

Description

This is used to name the first temperature found as 'temperature', the second as 'temperature2', etc.

Usage

getNextName(name, existingNames)

Arguments

name	character value indicating the variable name.
existingNames	vector of character values of existing variable names.

Value

[getNextName] returns a deconflicted version of 'name'.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Examples

library(oceglider)
e <- NULL
e <- c(e, getNextName("S", e))
e <- c(e, getNextName("T", e))
e <- c(e, getNextName("S", e))
e <- c(e, getNextName("T", e))
e <- c(e, getNextName("p", e))
print(e)

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