| prefix_replace {socviz} | R Documentation |
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' |
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.
Value
A character vector with 'prefixes' terms in 'var_names' replaced with the content of the 'replacement' terms.
Author(s)
Kieran Healy
Examples
prefix_replace(iris$Species, c("set", "ver", "vir"), c("sat",
"ber", "bar"))