Standardize Column or Feature Names — clean

Cleans a character vector of names by replacing spaces with underscores, removing special characters (`-`, `.`), replacing ` and converting to lowercase.

Usage

clean_names(names)

Arguments

names: `character vector` A vector of names to be cleaned.

Value

`character vector` A standardized version of the input names.

Examples

clean_names(c("Sample ID", "Feature-Name.1", "Concentration %"))
#> [1] "sample_id"         "featurename_1"     "concentration_pct"
# Returns: c("sample_id", "featurename1", "concentration_pct")