Abbreviate all variables in a data frame

It can be useful to abbreviate variable names in a data set to make them easier to plot. This function takes in a data set and some minimum length to abbreviate the data to.

Usage

abbreviate_vars(data, min_length = 10)

Arguments

data

data.frame

min_length

minimum number of characters to abbreviate down to

Value

data frame with abbreviated variable names

Examples

long_data <- data.frame(
  really_really_long_name = c(NA, NA, 1:8),
  very_quite_long_name = c(-1:-8, NA, NA),
  this_long_name_is_something_else = c(NA, NA,
                                       seq(from = 0, to = 1, length.out = 8))
)

vis_miss(long_data)

long_data %>% abbreviate_vars() %>% vis_miss()