R dplyr: rename variables using string functions

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This is a very late answer, on May 2017

As of dplyr 0.5.0.9004, soon to be 0.6.0, many new ways of renaming columns, compliant with the maggritr pipe operator %>%, have been added to the package.

Those functions are:

  • rename_all
  • rename_if
  • rename_at

There are many different ways of using those functions, but the one relevant to your problem, using the stringr package is the following:

df <- df %>%
  rename_all(
      funs(
        stringr::str_to_lower(.) %>%
        stringr::str_replace_all(., '\\.', '_')
      )
  )

And so, carry on with the plumbing 🙂 (no pun intended).

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