rename.vars: quick & dirty fn for renaming variable names...
In dfeehan/dhstools: Tools for analyzing Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

it may make sense to take this out and just use the plyr::rename function from the plyr package

1	rename.vars(vnames, fromvars, tovars)

`vnames`	the list of names to remap
`fromvars`	the current variable name
`tovars`	the new variable name (positions in this vector should correspond to the ones in fromvars)

a vector with vnames renamed according to the mapping from fromvars to tovars

rename

## Not run: 
   colnames(my.data) <- rename.vars(colnames(my.data),
                                    c("old_var1", "old_var2"),
                                    c("new_var1", "new_var2"))

## End(Not run)