[R] Function for trim blanks from a string(s)?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Use trim from:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/40714.html
or trim from gdata or trimWhiteSpace from limma in BioConductor.
RSiteSearch("trim") and help.search("trim") can locate such functions.


s <- c("  abc  ", "  def  ") # vector
m <- cbind(a = s, b = s) # matrix
DF <- as.data.frame(m) # data.frame

trim(s)
trim(m)
DF[] <- lapply(DF, trim)


On 8/6/07, adiamond <adiamond at csidentity.com> wrote:
>
> I feel like an idiot posting this because every language I've ever seen has a
> string function that trims blanks off strings (off the front or back or
> both).  Ideally, it would process whole data frames/matrices etc but I don't
> even see one that processes a single string.  But I've searched and I don't
> even see that.  There's a strtrim function but it does something completely
> different.
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