scrubNames: Scrub the fund or asset names from an xts object and replace...
In gtog/dMisc: A Collection of Helper Functions for Doing Financial Data Analysis

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Sometimes it is necessary to cover up the names of the funds when distributing analyses to colleagues. This little function takes care of that problem.

1	scrubNames(x)

`x`	an xts object to be scrubbed.

an xts object with the names replaced by 'Fund.x' where x is a number ranging from 1 to ncol(x).

dts <- seq(Sys.Date()-199, Sys.Date(), 1)
returns <- matrix(rnorm(1000),ncol = 5) / 100
ret.xts <- xts(returns, dts)
colnames(ret.xts) <- rep(c("Real Name"),ncol(ret.xts))
ret.nonames <- scrubNames(ret.xts)
head(ret.nonames)