Make Clean Names

Pipe-friendly function to make syntactically valid names out of character vectors.

make_clean_names(data)

Arguments

data

a data frame or vector

Value

a data frame or a vector depending on the input data

Examples

# Vector
make_clean_names(c("a and b", "a-and-b"))
#> [1] "a.and.b" "a.and.b"
make_clean_names(1:10)
#>  [1] "X1"  "X2"  "X3"  "X4"  "X5"  "X6"  "X7"  "X8"  "X9"  "X10"

# data frame
df <- data.frame(
`a and b` = 1:4,
`c and d` = 5:8,
 check.names = FALSE
)
df
#>   a and b c and d
#> 1       1       5
#> 2       2       6
#> 3       3       7
#> 4       4       8
make_clean_names(df)
#>   a.and.b c.and.d
#> 1       1       5
#> 2       2       6
#> 3       3       7
#> 4       4       8