qdap 2.2.0

Clean Imported Text

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.

Clean Imported Text

Value

Returns a parsed character vector.

Description

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

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# x <- c("I like 456 dogs\t  , don't you?\"")
# scrubber(x)
# scrubber(x, TRUE)
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>

See also

strip