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renaming.r
#get variable names for mtcars dataset in rbase
colnames(mtcars)
#if yow want to recode variables the lazy way
fix(mtcars) #downside is that it isn't hard coded, and therefore not reproducible
#use the reshape package
library(reshape)
test <- rename(mtcars, c(disp="renamedisp")) #reproducible
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