With the help of tidyverse how to rename a column to a variable name

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I have taken a simple dataset "mtcars"

Now I want to change the column "disp" to "Displacement"

I can do easily by

colnames(mtcars)[3] = "Displacement"

But I want to use tidyverse so it can be used in a pipe?

Apr 3, 2018 in Data Analytics by DataKing99
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edited Jun 9, 2020 by MD 755 views

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With the help of Dplyr: rename function we can do

rename(mtcars, !!"Displacement":=disp)

The rename is as follows rename(data, !!"New_name":="Old_name")

answered Apr 3, 2018 by DeepCoder786
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edited Apr 3, 2018 by DeepCoder786

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