diff --git a/R/core_commons.R b/R/core_commons.R
index fdfcb42973af01217ae5d62813051b550fdadfe8..17a322105fbafe6e94791154bf0bee93ec5eb995 100644
--- a/R/core_commons.R
+++ b/R/core_commons.R
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ as = function(df, name){
     df
 }
 
-as_var = function(df, name){
+n_as = function(df, name){
     names(df)[length(names(df))] = name
     df
 }