R Remove Blanks in Variable Names of Data Frame (Example Code)
This article shows how to remove blanks in variable names in the R programming language.
Creation of Exemplifying Data
df <- data.frame("col A" = c("A", "X", "Y"), # Exemplifying data frame in R "col B" = letters[10:8], "col C" = 10:12, check.names = FALSE) df # Displaying example data frame in RStudio # col A col B col C # 1 A j 10 # 2 X i 11 # 3 Y h 12 |
df <- data.frame("col A" = c("A", "X", "Y"), # Exemplifying data frame in R "col B" = letters[10:8], "col C" = 10:12, check.names = FALSE) df # Displaying example data frame in RStudio # col A col B col C # 1 A j 10 # 2 X i 11 # 3 Y h 12
Example: Remove Blanks from Variable Names
df_updated <- df # Replicating data frame colnames(df_updated) <- gsub(" ", # Changing column names "_", colnames(df_updated)) df_updated # Displaying new data frame # col_A col_B col_C # 1 A j 10 # 2 X i 11 # 3 Y h 12 |
df_updated <- df # Replicating data frame colnames(df_updated) <- gsub(" ", # Changing column names "_", colnames(df_updated)) df_updated # Displaying new data frame # col_A col_B col_C # 1 A j 10 # 2 X i 11 # 3 Y h 12
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