socviz (version 1.2)

prefix_strip: prefix_strip

Description

Strip a series of characters from the beginning of a character vector.

Usage

prefix_strip(var_string, prefixes, toTitle = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

var_string

A character vector, usually variable names

prefixes

A character vector, usually variable prefixes

toTitle

Convert results to Title Case? Defaults to TRUE.

...

Other arguments to `gsub`

Value

A character vector with `prefixes` terms stripped from the beginning of `var_name` 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_strip(iris$Species, c("set", "v"))
# }