clean_variable_labels: Clean variable labels

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Clean variable labels

Description

This function standardises the labels of all characters of factors in a data.frame. It uses the standardisation implemented by epitrix::clean_labels() in the epitrix package. See ?epitrix::clean_labels for more information.

Usage

clean_variable_labels(x, classes = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	a data.frame
classes	a vector of class definitions for each of the columns. If this is not provided, the classes will be read from the columns themselves. Practically, this is used in clean_data() to mark columns as protected.
...	further arguments passed to epitrix::clean_labels(); the most important is sep, which refers to the separator used between words, and defaults to the underscore _.

Value

A data.frame with standardised labels for characters and factors.

Author(s)

Thibaut Jombart

Examples

## make toy data
toy_data <- clean_variable_names(messy_data())

## clean variable labels, store in new object, show results
clean_data <- clean_variable_labels(toy_data)
clean_data

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