socviz (version 1.2)

prefix_replace: prefix_replace

Description

Replace series of characters (usually variable names) at the beginning of a character vector.

Usage

prefix_replace(var_names, prefixes, replacements, toTitle = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

var_names

A character vector, usually variable names

prefixes

A character vector, usually variable prefixes

replacements

A character vector of replacements for the `prefixes`, in the same order as them.

toTitle

Convert results to Title Case? Defaults to TRUE.

...

Other arguments to `gsub`

Value

A character vector with `prefixes` terms in `var_names` replaced with the content of the `replacement` terms.

Details

Takes a character vector (usually vector of variable names from a summarized or tidied model object), along with a vector of character terms (usually the prefix of a dummy or categorical variable added by R when creating model terms) and strips the latter away from the former. Useful for quickly cleaning variable names for a plot.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
prefix_replace(iris$Species, c("set", "ver", "vir"), c("sat",
    "ber", "bar"))
# }