tidy_rname: Transform char to rname
In jomuller/vartors: Transform Definition of Variables to R Scripts

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Transform a character vector to another one with good names for data.frames header following several rules.

1 2	tidy_rname(char, ascii = TRUE, no_dots = TRUE, no_duplicate = TRUE, max_size = 16, lowercase = TRUE)

`char`	A character vector with the original columns names.
`ascii`	Boolean. Only produce ASCII char. Default is `TRUE`.
`no_dots`	Boolean. Replace dots by underscores. Default is `TRUE`.
`no_duplicate`	Boolean. If there is a duplicate, add a number at the end of the name.
`max_size`	Integer. Number max of character. If 0, no limits. Will not cut words < of 8 letters. Default is 16. Will keep the first letters and the last ones (a least 3)
`lowercase`	Boolean. Change to lower cases. Default is `TRUE`.

The rules applied are :

rules from official doc : use the function make.names
rules of good practice
- only ASCII character
- don't use dots because they have a special meaning in R
- avoid duplicates
- don't use to long name (less than 16 char).
- should be only lower cases

A character vector.

Joris Muller

This function is used by descvars_skeleton to produce the column rname. The base make.names function does a part of the work.

bad_names <- c("white space", "multiples...dots..", "duplicate",
               "duplicate", "$p<c3><a9>cial char", "looooooooognameeeeeeee")
transformed_names <- tidy_rname(bad_names)
transformed_names