Renaming names in a dataset with commas and fullstops-CodePudding

I am trying to rename some countries in my data but I seem to be having an issue with one. I wish to rename these following countries but I get an error when trying to rename 'Egypt, Arab Rep.' to `Egypt'

data

Country_Name               value
Egypt, Arab Rep.       2192
Syrian Arab Republic   4998
Turkiye                8230

code used to rename

data = data %>% rename(Egypt = "Egypt, Arab Rep.") %>% rename(Syria = "Syrian Arab Republic") %>% rename(Turkey = "Turkiye")

error message received

`Error in `stop_subscript()`:
! Can't rename columns that don't exist.
✖ Column_Name `Egypt, Arab Rep.` doesn't exist.`

CodePudding user response：

A dplyr way of doing this would be using the case_when function

library(dplyr)

df <- data.frame(Country = c("Egypt, Arab Rep.", "Syrian Arab Republic", "Turkiye"),
                 value = c(2192, 4998, 8230))

df <- df %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(Country = dplyr::case_when(
    Country == "Egypt, Arab Rep." ~ "Egypt",
    Country == "Syrian Arab Republic" ~ "Syria",
    TRUE ~ Country
  ))

RESULT:

  Country value
1   Egypt  2192
2   Syria  4998
3 Turkiye  8230