removeNamelessVars: Remove Nameless Variables

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Remove Nameless Variables

Description

When importing data from Excel or Calc there are some quirks that can happend because of the format of the files. One of those quirks is that "phantom" variables are created, usually with names like "___14"

Usage

removeNamelessVars(data, starts.with = c("_"), verbose = TRUE, DEBUG = FALSE)

Arguments

data	data.frame to be "cleaned" of empty nameless variables
starts.with	Vector with "starting" strings that will ve removed to detect nameless vars (default = c("_"))
verbose	logical; to be more or less verbose
DEBUG	logical; to be extra verbose

Details

This function tracks those variables and removes them from the data.frame

Value

data.frame with the resulting data.frame without the problematic variables

Examples

data <- mtcars
data$`___1` <- NA

removeNamelessVars(data)

data$`___1` <- 1

removeNamelessVars(data)

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