Change Variable Names. — changeVarNames • eatGADS

Change variable names of a GADSdat or all_GADSdat object.

Usage

changeVarNames(GADSdat, oldNames, newNames, checkVarNames = TRUE)

Arguments

GADSdat: GADSdat object imported via eatGADS.
oldNames: Vector containing the old variable names.
newNames: Vector containing the new variable names, in identical order as oldNames.
checkVarNames: Logical. Should new variable names be checked by checkVarNames?

Value

Returns the GADSdat object with changed variable names.

Details

Applied to a GADSdat or all_GADSdat object, this function is a wrapper of getChangeMeta and applyChangeMeta

Examples

# Change multiple variable name
pisa2 <- changeVarNames(pisa, oldNames = c("idstud", "idschool"),
                        newNames = c("IDstud", "IDschool"))