[R] Renaming multiple objects

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Nov 20 11:53:05 CET 2021


On 20/11/2021 5:27 a.m., Steven Yen wrote:
> I have named NUMEROUS objects (each containing, e.g., 48 obs. of 5
> variables), such as
>     mec1.p.emb
>     mec2.p.emb
>     meb1.p.emb
>     meb2.p.emb
>     mej12.p.emb
>     mej22.p.emb
> 
> How would I rename these objects removing the silly ".emb", into objects
>     mec1.p
>     mec2.p
>     meb1.p
>     meb2.p
>     mej12.p
>     mej22.p
> 

Use a global search and replace on your source code, and create them 
with the correct names.

Duncan Murdoch



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