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frename: Fast Renaming Objects

Description

A fast substitute for dplyr::rename. setrename renames objects by reference. These functions also work with objects other than data frames that have a 'names' attribute.

Usage

frename(x, …, cols = NULL)

setrename(x, …, cols = NULL)

Arguments

x

an R object with a 'names' attribute.

either tagged vector expressions of the form name = newname, or a single function (+ optional arguments to the function) applied to all names (of columns/elements selected in cols).

cols

If is a function, select a subset of columns/elements to rename using names, indices, a logical vector or a function applied to the columns if x is a data frame (i.e. is.numeric).

Value

x renamed.

See Also

Data Frame Manipulation, Collapse Overview

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
## Using tagged expressions
head(frename(iris, Sepal.Length = SL, Sepal.Width = SW,
                   Petal.Length = PL, Petal.Width = PW))
head(frename(iris, Sepal.Length = "S L", Sepal.Width = "S W",
                   Petal.Length = "P L", Petal.Width = "P W"))

## Using a function
head(frename(iris, tolower))
head(frename(iris, tolower, cols = 1:2))
head(frename(iris, tolower, cols = is.numeric))
head(frename(iris, paste, "new", sep = "_", cols = 1:2))

## Renaming by reference
setrename(iris, tolower)
head(iris)
rm(iris)

# }

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