i'm using the make.names() column to create better column names, removing illegal symbols etc. how do I apply the new column names to the dataset?

this produces the vector of new column names:

names(data) %>% make.names()

i've tried these approaches to get the new column names to replace the old ones (these don't work the way I want):

names(data) %>% make.names() <- data
names(data) %>% make.names() <- names(data)
data <- names(data) %>% make.names()

2 Answers

You almost had it:

names(data) <- names(data) %>% make.names()

With dplyr, we can do

library(dplyr)
data <- data %>% set_names(make.names(names(.)))

Or with rename_all

data <- data %>% rename_all(~ make.names(.))

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