splits comma or plus separated variable names into a character vector

split_variable_names(predictors_vector, acronyms = NULL, split_by = "[\\+,]")

Arguments

predictors_vector

character vector of comma or plus separated variable lists

acronyms

tibble with two character columns: acronym, meaning

split_by

regex expression, comma and plus by default

Value

character vector with variable names

Details

splits comma or plus separated variable names into a character vector. Duplicate variable names are removed. For a vector input just collects all variable names.

Examples

split_variable_names(c("aaa+bbb", "ccc,bbb,ddd"))
#> [1] "aaa" "bbb" "ccc" "ddd"