clean {Read.isi} | R Documentation |
Clean is a helper function for the read.isi package. It deletes spaces at the start and the end of a single character string.
clean(x)
x |
Single character string |
Can handle single character strings only. To use on a vector of characters x, use sapply(x, FUN=clean)
Returns a character string
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More information on usage and background of the development can be found on www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/r-project/my-functions/read-isi/
a <- " messy string " clean(a) #[1] "messy string" b <- c(" First", "Second ", " and last ...") sapply(b, FUN=clean) # First Second and last ... # "First" "Second" "and last ..." d <- c("vfdgf'dre'3fv") clean(d) #[1] "vfdgf.dre.3fv"