change_case

Columns from FAOSTAT frequently have parentheses and other non-alphanumeric
characters. This suite of functions seeks to give control over these names
for easier data analysis

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
A list of functions to download statistics from FAOSTAT (database of the FAO <https://www.fao.org/faostat/>)
and WDI (database of the World Bank <https://data.worldbank.org/>), and to perform some harmonization operations.

Paul Rougieux

FAOSTAT

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database

change_case function

<dl><dt>old_names</dt>
<dd>character. Vector of the names to be changed</dd>
<dt>new_case</dt>
<dd>character. Choice of new names:<ul>
<li>make_names - (default) use the <a href="/link/make.names?package=FAOSTAT&version=2.4.0" data-mini-rdoc="FAOSTAT::make.names">make.names</a> function in R to sanitise names</li>
<li>unsanitised/unsanitized - Return names as they are</li>
<li>snake_case - Names are converted to lowercase and separators are replaced with underscores</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>extra arguments to pass to sanitisation function (only works for <a href="/link/make.names?package=FAOSTAT&version=2.4.0" data-mini-rdoc="FAOSTAT::make.names">make.names</a>)</dd></dl>

Arguments

Change case of column names — change_case

<dl>

<dt>old_names</dt>
<dd>character. Vector of the names to be changed</dd>


<dt>new_case</dt>
<dd>character. Choice of new names:<ul>
<li>make_names - (default) use the <a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/make.names.html'>make.names</a> function in R to sanitise names</li>
<li>unsanitised/unsanitized - Return names as they are</li>
<li>snake_case - Names are converted to lowercase and separators are replaced with underscores</li>
</ul></dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>extra arguments to pass to sanitisation function (only works for <a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/make.names.html'>make.names</a>)</dd>

</dl>

change_case: Change case of column names

Description

Usage

Arguments