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Remove Patterns from Column Names or Variables

Source: R/remove_names.R
remove_names.Rd

Modifies column names or specified variables in a data frame by replacing specified patterns with empty strings or spaces.

Usage

remove_names(
  input_df,
  variable = "colnames",
  patterns_to_na = patterns_to_na,
  patterns_space = NULL
)

Arguments

input_df

Data frame. Input data to modify.

variable

Character. Column to modify: "colnames" for column names, or a specific column name. Default is "colnames".

patterns_to_na

Character vector. Patterns to replace with empty string. Default uses [patterns_to_na].

patterns_space

Character vector or `NULL`. Patterns to replace with spaces. Default is `NULL`.

Value

Modified data frame with patterns replaced.

Author

Dongqiang Zeng

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  "CellA_cibersort" = 1:5,
  "CellB_xCell" = 6:10,
  "CellC_TIMER" = 11:15
)
result <- remove_names(df, variable = "colnames", patterns_to_na = patterns_to_na)
colnames(result)
#> [1] "CellA"  "CellB_" "CellC"