Message-ID: <ae85e471-659f-6b15-5b91-ddbfebc9bd8a@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2017-02-22T00:05:33Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: [FORGED] function for remove white space
In-Reply-To: <CACt-d0h0-UTO8bELjeM4TNBDMe91tw=r-f3URUf9PrEJJJ_fuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 22/02/17 12:51, Jos? Luis Aguilar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a dataframe with 34 columns and 1534 observations.
>
> In some columns I have strings with spaces, i want remove the space.
> Is there a function that removes whitespace from the entire dataframe?
> I use gsub but I would need some function to automate this.
Something like
X <- as.data.frame(lapply(X,function(x){gsub(" ","",x)}))
Untested, since you provide no reproducible example (despite being told
by the posting guide to do so).
I do not know what my idea will do to numeric columns or to factors.
However it should give you at least a start.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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