renameVars: Rename variables in a data frame using a mapping file

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Rename variables in a data frame using a mapping file

Description

Allows to easily utilize different version of variable naming, e.g. for diffnerent languages.

Usage

renameVars(data, rename)

Arguments

data	data.frame containing each variable in a spearate column
rename	mapping file (csv) to rename vars. Contains the following columns: OLD, NEW, TYPE, VARNAME, REFERENCE. OLD contains the old names, NEW the new ones, TYPE is VARNAME for variables (colnames of data), and LEVEL for the corresponding variable levels. VARNAME contains the old variable name to which each levels corresponds to. REFERENCE is the ordre for factors, 1 being the reference

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