qdap (version 2.2.4)

scrubber: Clean Imported Text

Description

Use to clean text variables when importing a new data set. Removes extra white spaces other textual anomalies that may cause errors.

Usage

scrubber(text.var, num2word = FALSE, rm.quote = TRUE, fix.comma = TRUE,
  fix.space = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

text.var
The text variable.
num2word
logical If TRUE replaces a numbers with text representations.
rm.quote
logical If TRUE removes any ".
fix.comma
logical If TRUE removes any spaces before a comma.
fix.space
logical. If TRUE extra spaces before endmarks are removed.
...
Other arguments passed to replace_number.

Value

  • Returns a parsed character vector.

See Also

strip

Examples

Run this code
x <- c("I like 456 dogs\t  , don't you?\"")
scrubber(x)
scrubber(x, TRUE)

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