[R] Rename variables starting with digits

[Andrew Simmons]

Hello,


I think you have to use 'matches' instead of 'starts_with', I believe
starts_with does not accept a regular expression whereas matches does.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:15 PM Anne Zach <anne.zach.zach using gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I have a dataframe that contains several variables, among which 105
> correspond to scores on certain trials. Unfortunately, when I imported this
> dataframe into R, I realised that the variable names corresponding to each
> trial begin with digits, which violates R naming conventions.
>
> I am trying to relabel these variables by adding a 'v' as a prefix to each
> of them, I'd like to use tidyverse, but I am struggling with this process
> of renaming. When I run this chunk of code, no error occurs but my
> variables are not renamed. I'm fairly new to R and I can't understand what
> I'm doing wrong.
>
> ```{r}
>
> behavioral_df <- behavioral_df %>% rename_with(.fn =  ~paste0("v"),
> starts_with('^\\d'))
>
> ```
>
> I appreciate if you can help.
>
> Best,
> Anne
>
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