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mv

Rename an Object

Rename an object.

mv(from, to, envir = parent.frame())

`from`	Character scalar giving the source object name
`to`	Character scalar giving the desination object name
`envir`	Environment in which to do the rename

This function renames an object by the value of object a to the name b, and removing a.

Invisibly returns the value of the object.

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

a <- 1:10
  a
  mv("a", "b")
  b
  exists("a")

Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation

v2.18.0

GPL-2

Authors

Gregory R. Warnes, Ben Bolker, Gregor Gorjanc, Gabor Grothendieck, Ales Korosec, Thomas Lumley, Don MacQueen, Arni Magnusson, Jim Rogers, and others

Initial release

2017-06-05