clean up variable names

[beanumber]

Some spatial layers have poorly named variables, for example:

library(macleish)
#> Loading required package: etl
#> Loading required package: dplyr
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
macleish_layers[["research"]]
#> Simple feature collection with 32 features and 11 fields
#> geometry type:  POLYGON
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: -72.68474 ymin: 42.45108 xmax: -72.67797 ymax: 42.45915
#> CRS:            4326
#> First 10 features:
#>    OBJECTID Id GapControl BUFF_DIST Name Details Start_Year Professor
#> 1         1  0       <NA>         0 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 2         2  0       <NA>         0 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 3         3  0       <NA>         0 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 4         4  1          G        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 5         5  2          C        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 6         6  3          G        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 7         7  4          C        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 8         8  7          G        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 9         9  8          C        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#> 10       10  5          G        12 <NA>    <NA>          0      <NA>
#>    Year_Start Shape_Leng Shape_Area                       geometry
#> 1           0   75.30356   310.8627 POLYGON ((-72.68172 42.4531...
#> 2           0  129.98172   491.5150 POLYGON ((-72.68184 42.4531...
#> 3           0   52.90795   169.9880 POLYGON ((-72.68217 42.4554...
#> 4           0   75.30253   450.0957 POLYGON ((-72.67812 42.4515...
#> 5           0   75.30258   450.0963 POLYGON ((-72.67855 42.4514...
#> 6           0   75.30256   450.0961 POLYGON ((-72.67894 42.4523...
#> 7           0   75.30256   450.0961 POLYGON ((-72.67933 42.4526...
#> 8           0   75.30262   450.0968 POLYGON ((-72.68181 42.4534...
#> 9           0   75.30260   450.0965 POLYGON ((-72.68135 42.4537...
#> 10          0   75.30260   450.0965 POLYGON ((-72.68148 42.4522...

^{Created on 2020-08-28 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

What is OBJECTID, and Id, etc? Are these variables meaningful? Or helpful?

This may require talking to Paul or Reid to recover some institutional/knowledge.

[djkelly00]

Reid Bertone-Johnson reported that "OBJECT ID and ID are unique identifiers (primary keys) generated by ArcGIS. They are not relevant data, simply an organizational tool for the database structure," so no change to these variable names may be necessary.