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Cleaning data.frame names with dplyr
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| clean_names <- function(dat){ | |
| # Takes a data.frame, returns the same data frame with cleaned names | |
| old_names <- names(dat) | |
| new_names <- old_names %>% | |
| gsub("%", "percent", .) %>% | |
| make.names(.) %>% | |
| gsub("[.]+", "_", .) %>% | |
| tolower(.) %>% | |
| gsub("_$", "", .) | |
| setNames(dat, new_names) | |
| } |
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In case anyone ever sees this - it's now janitor::clean_names.