R/utils.R

In lee269/iapdashboardadmin: Tools for using the Comtrade bulk download API

# make names db safe: no '.' or other illegal characters,
# all lower case and unique
safe_names = function(names) {
  names = gsub('[^a-z0-9]+','_',tolower(names))
  names = make.names(names, unique=TRUE, allow_=TRUE)
  names = gsub('.','_',names, fixed=TRUE)
  names
}