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snakecaser

The goal of snakecaser is to provide an RStudio add-in for converting a character string to snake case. I often want to do this when I create objects in R and want to name them with short descriptive phrases.

Examples

“Here is some, rather simple, example text.”

And here is what is looks like after the snakecaser add-in is used on it:

here_is_some_rather_simple_example_text

There is also a function, to_snake_case(), which can be called directly, independent of the RStudio add-in:

library(snakecaser)
to_snake_case("snakes are venomous, not poisonous!")
#> [1] "snakes_are_venomous_not_poisonous"

Installation

This add-in can be installed with:

devtools::install_github("benmarwick/snakecaser")

Related

Tazinho/snakecase: A very thorough and systematic package for converting strings to several different varieties of common cases.

sfirke/janitor: Contains numerous functions for examining and cleaning dirty data, including clean_names(), which is a thorough snake case converter.

hrbrmstr/docxtractr: For reading tables from Microsoft Word docx documents, has mcga() for making column names great by converting them to snake case. The direct inspiration for this add-in.

decisionpatterns/lettercase: Utilities for formatting strings with consistent capitalization, word breaks and white space, including a snake case converter lettercase::str_snake_case().