Nice names

Convert a character vector into a similar character vector that would work better as names in a data frame by avoiding certain awkward characters

nice_names(x, unique = TRUE)

Arguments

x

a character vector

unique

a logical indicating whether returned values should be uniquified.

Value

a character vector

Examples

nice_names( c("bad name", "name (crazy)", "a:b", "two-way") )
#> [1] "bad.name"     "name..crazy." "a.b"          "two.way"