prefix_strip: prefix_strip

In kjhealy/socviz: Utility Functions and Data Sets for Data Visualization

Description

Strip a series of characters from the beginning of a character vector.

Usage

prefix_strip(var_string, prefixes, toTitle = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

var_string	A character vector, usually variable names
prefixes	A character vector, usually variable prefixes
toTitle	Convert results to Title Case? Defaults to TRUE.
...	Other arguments to 'gsub'

Details

Takes a character vector (usually vector of variable names from a summarized or tidied model object), along with a vector of character terms (usually the prefix of a dummy or categorical variable added by R when creating model terms) and strips the latter away from the former. Useful for quickly cleaning variable names for a plot.

Value

A character vector with 'prefixes' terms stripped from the beginning of 'var_name' terms.

Author(s)

Kieran Healy

Examples

prefix_strip(iris$Species, c("set", "v"))

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