Sanitize variable names

Prepared covariates often have special characters in their variable names which can or can not be used in formulas or cause errors for certain engines. This function converts special characters of variable names into a format

Usage

sanitize_names(names)

Arguments

names

A vector of character vectors to be sanitized.

Value

A vector of sanitized character.

Examples

# Correct variable names
vars <- c("Climate-temperature2015", "Elevation__sealevel", "Landuse.forest..meanshare")
sanitize_names(vars)
#> [1] "Climate_temperature2015"   "Elevation_sealevel"       
#> [3] "Landuse.forest..meanshare"