libbib (version 1.6.4)

dt_set_clean_names: Takes a data.table and set to cleaned column names

Description

This function takes a data.table, and returns the same data.table with column names that are cleaned and stripped of potentially troublesome names

Usage

dt_set_clean_names(DT, lower = TRUE)

Value

Returns the data.table but with cleaned names

Arguments

DT

a data.table

lower

A logical indicating whether all column names should be made lower case (default TRUE).

Details

All space/whitespace characters are replaced with underscores, as are all characters not from A-Z, a-z, an underscore, or a digit

See Also

get_clean_names

Examples

ejemplo <- as.data.table(iris)
setnames(ejemplo, c("Sepal Length", "Sepal@Width", "Petal	Length",
                    "Petal\\nWidth", "Spêcies"))
dt_set_clean_names(ejemplo)