Automatically generate names for vectors

Automatically generate names for vectors

autonames(x, ..., trimws = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A vector

...

Additional arguments passed to format()

trimws

Whether to trim whitespace surrounding automatically formatted names. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

Returns the names of a named vector and the elements of an unnamed vector formatted as characters.

Examples

autonames(c(a = "apple", b = "banana", c = "cantaloupe"))
#> [1] "a" "b" "c"
autonames(c("apple", "banana", "cantaloupe"))
#> [1] "apple"      "banana"     "cantaloupe"

autonames(10^(1:4))
#> [1] "10"    "100"   "1000"  "10000"
autonames(10^(1:4), big.mark = ",")
#> [1] "10"     "100"    "1,000"  "10,000"
autonames(10^(1:4), scientific = TRUE)
#> [1] "1e+01" "1e+02" "1e+03" "1e+04"