I stumbled upon this line while learning about the rename function in "dplyr" package. I am wondering what is the meaning of ~ and .x I have tried googling it but I couldn't find an answer.
rename_with(iris, ~ tolower(gsub(".", "_", .x, fixed = TRUE)))
in the context of dplyr it roughly means; what follows is an anonymous function where .x is the argument of the function.
in keeping with modern improvements to R, its preferred to be explicit, and so a preffered way to write the same command might be
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