Easily tidy the column names of a tibble

Source: R/tidy_colnames.R

Cleans up bad data table names by removing dots ".", spaces, and hyphens, replacing all with an underscore "_"

tidy_colnames(data)

Arguments

data

data.frame or tibble

Examples

tib <- tibble::tibble("colname.1" = c(1:5),
                      "colname 2" = LETTERS[1:5],
                      "colname-3" = letters[26:22])
tidy_colnames(tib)
#> # A tibble: 5 x 3
#>   colname_1 colname_2 colname_3
#>       <int> <chr>     <chr>    
#> 1         1 A         z        
#> 2         2 B         y        
#> 3         3 C         x        
#> 4         4 D         w        
#> 5         5 E         v