data_prefix_suffix: Add a prefix or suffix to column names

In easystats/datawizard: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations

Add a prefix or suffix to column names

Description

Add a prefix or suffix to column names

Usage

data_addprefix(
  data,
  pattern,
  select = NULL,
  exclude = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  regex = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

data_addsuffix(
  data,
  pattern,
  select = NULL,
  exclude = NULL,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  regex = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	A data frame.
pattern	A character string, which will be added as prefix or suffix to the column names.
select	Variables that will be included when performing the required tasks. Can be either a variable specified as a literal variable name (e.g., column_name), a string with the variable name (e.g., "column_name"), a character vector of variable names (e.g., c("col1", "col2", "col3")), or a character vector of variable names including ranges specified via : (e.g., c("col1:col3", "col5")), for some functions, like data_select() or data_rename(), select can be a named character vector. In this case, the names are used to rename the columns in the output data frame. See 'Details' in the related functions to see where this option applies. a formula with variable names (e.g., ~column_1 + column_2), a vector of positive integers, giving the positions counting from the left (e.g. 1 or c(1, 3, 5)), a vector of negative integers, giving the positions counting from the right (e.g., -1 or -1:-3), one of the following select-helpers: starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), a range using :, or regex(). starts_with(), ends_with(), and contains() accept several patterns, e.g starts_with("Sep", "Petal"). regex() can be used to define regular expression patterns. a function testing for logical conditions, e.g. is.numeric() (or is.numeric), or any user-defined function that selects the variables for which the function returns TRUE (like: foo <- function(x) mean(x) > 3), ranges specified via literal variable names, select-helpers (except regex()) and (user-defined) functions can be negated, i.e. return non-matching elements, when prefixed with a -, e.g. -ends_with(), -is.numeric or -(Sepal.Width:Petal.Length). Note: Negation means that matches are excluded, and thus, the exclude argument can be used alternatively. For instance, select=-ends_with("Length") (with -) is equivalent to exclude=ends_with("Length") (no -). In case negation should not work as expected, use the exclude argument instead. If NULL, selects all columns. Patterns that found no matches are silently ignored, e.g. extract_column_names(iris, select = c("Species", "Test")) will just return "Species".
exclude	See select, however, column names matched by the pattern from exclude will be excluded instead of selected. If NULL (the default), excludes no columns.
ignore_case	Logical, if TRUE and when one of the select-helpers or a regular expression is used in select, ignores lower/upper case in the search pattern when matching against variable names.
regex	Logical, if TRUE, the search pattern from select will be treated as regular expression. When regex = TRUE, select must be a character string (or a variable containing a character string) and is not allowed to be one of the supported select-helpers or a character vector of length > 1. regex = TRUE is comparable to using one of the two select-helpers, select = contains() or select = regex(), however, since the select-helpers may not work when called from inside other functions (see 'Details'), this argument may be used as workaround.
verbose	Toggle warnings.
...	Other arguments passed to or from other functions.

See Also

data_rename() for more fine-grained column renaming.

Examples

# Add prefix / suffix to all columns
head(data_addprefix(iris, "NEW_"))
head(data_addsuffix(iris, "_OLD"))

easystats/datawizard documentation built on April 17, 2025, 5:32 a.m.