sjmisc (version 2.2.0)

var_rename: Rename variables

Description

This function renames variables in a data frame, i.e. it renames the columns of the data frame.

Usage

var_rename(data, ...)

Arguments

data

A data frame.

...

Pairs of named vectors, where the name equals the old variable name (column name), and the value is the new variable (column) name.

Value

data, with new column names for those variables specified in ....

Examples

# Set variable labels for data frame
dummy <- data.frame(a = sample(1:4, 10, replace = TRUE),
                    b = sample(1:4, 10, replace = TRUE),
                    c = sample(1:4, 10, replace = TRUE))

var_rename(dummy, a = "first.col", c = "3rd.col")