cbind a dynamic column name from a string in R

Question

I want to cbind a column to the data frame with the column name dynamically assigned from a string

y_attribute = \"Survived\"
cbind(test_data, y_attribute =         


        

Answer 1

We can use tidyverse to do this

library(dplyr)
test_data %>%
     mutate(!! y_attribute := NA)
#   col1 Survived
#1    1       NA
#2    2       NA
#3    3       NA
#4    4       NA
#5    5       NA

data

test_data <- data.frame(col1 = 1:5)