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Replaces occurrences of unique values within a name with their first three characters. This function is useful for abbreviating long condition names in a dataset.

Usage

shorten_names(name, unique_values)

Arguments

name

A string representing the name to be shortened.

unique_values

A vector of unique values whose abbreviations will replace their occurrences in the name.

Value

A string with the unique values replaced by their abbreviations.