make_names: Make syntactically valid names

In pttry/statfitools: Helper Functions for Working with the Data from Statistics Finland

Make syntactically valid names

Description

Try to make more convinient names than make.names.

Usage

make_names(x, to_lower = TRUE, rename_values = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	a character vector (of factor) with names to change
to_lower	a locigal whether to turn names to lower case.
rename_values	a locigal whether to rename last column (values column) as "values".
...	Arguments passed to make.names.

Details

Modifications: * replace some umlaut mark characters with a similar characters without * a space and punctuations replaced with "_" * remove duplicated, leading and trailing "_" * finnish with make.names

Value

a character vector (or factor).

Examples

  make_names(c("M\u00E4\u00E4r\u00E4", "Regional code"))
  make_names("Hello, world!")

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