mStats (version 3.2.2)

rename: Rename variable

Description

rename() changes names of variables.

Usage

rename(data, old_var, new_var)

Arguments

data

dataset

old_var

name of existing variable

new_var

new name to be changed

Value

data.frame

Details

rename() changes the name of an existing variable, var_old to a new name, var_new; the contents of the variable are unchanged.

A group of variables can be also renamed by specifying the same number of variables in both var_old and var_new

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## using infert dataset
data(infert)

# renaming one variable
infert.new <- rename(infert, age, AGE)
codebook(infert.new)

# renaming a group of variables
infert.new <- rename(infert,
                    c(age, parity, induced, case),
                    c(AGE, PARITY, INDUCED, CASE))
codebook(infert.new)


# }