[R] [FORGED] function for remove white space

[José Luis]

Thank's for your answer.

I'm using read.csv.

Enviado desde mi iPad

> El 22/2/2017, a las 3:39, William Michels <wjm1 en caa.columbia.edu> escribió:
> 
> Hi José (and Rolf),
> 
> It's not entirely clear what type of 'whitespace' you're referring to,
> but if you're using read.table() or read.csv() to create your
> dataframe in the first place, setting 'strip.white = TRUE' will remove
> leading and trailing whitespace 'from unquoted character fields
> (numeric fields are always stripped).'
> 
>> ?read.table
>> ?read.csv
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>> On 2/21/17, Rolf Turner <r.turner en auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>> On 22/02/17 12:51, José 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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